Blue-sage
কালোবাসক
Eranthemum pulchellum Andrews
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 75 cm
- wide
- 75 cm
Acanthaceae
Formerly Daedalacanthus nervosus, Daedalacanthus scaber, Daedalacanthus varians, Eranthemum asperum, and 12 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Subshrub or shrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- N. Pakistan to Indo-ChinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from RHS and Wikipedia, not yet checked: its sources are splitTied: no reading has a majority of the 2 sources, so all are kept for a person to settle. Sources differ: RHS full; Wikipedia part
- Height
- 51 cm to 99 cmRead from RHS, one source
- Spread
- 51 cm to 99 cmRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS, one source
- Coldest it survives
- 10 °C (USDA zone 12a)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (4)
- Chinese
- 鼠妇画眉草, 可爱花, 喜花草
- Finnish
- Korukäpy
- Simplified Chinese
- 可爱花, 喜花草, 爱春花
- Bangla
- কালোবাসক
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 4.0
- 3D model: Eranthemum pulchellum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.