Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Lamiales > Acanthaceae > Justicia > Justicia betonica

Justicia betonica (squirrel's tail)

Synonyms:

Infraspecies

Justicia betonica var. betonica
Justicia betonica var. ramosissima
Justicia betonica var. villosa

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Low
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Structure [3]  Shrub

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Kruger National Park II 4718115 Mpumalanga, South Africa
Reserva Biológica Hitoy Cerere Biological Reserve Ia 24641 Costa Rica  

Predators

Saissetia coffeae (brown scale)[4]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0