Nerve Plant
Fittonia albivenis (Lindl. ex Veitch) Brummitt
- light
- Part sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 14 cm
- wide
- 30 cm
Acanthaceae
Formerly Adelaster albivenis, Adelaster albovenosus, Eranthemum rubronervium, Eranthemum rubrovenium, and 8 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- SubshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- S. Trop. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 8 cm to 20 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 15 cm to 46 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- 4.4 °C (USDA zone 11a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Chinese
- 白脈網紋草 白脈費道花, 紅脈網紋草 紅脈費道花, 嫣红蔓
- Spanish
- Cucarachita, hoja de kuika, Allpa kuru pahu panka (kichwa)
- Dutch
- mozaïekplant
- Japanese
- シロアミメグサ, ベニアミメグサ
- Chinese (China)
- 网纹草
- Russian
- Фиттония беложильчатая
- Swedish
- åderblad
- Danish
- rødåre
- Thai
- พรมออสเตรเลีย
- Polish
- fitonia białożyłkowa
- Slovak
- fitónia bieložilová
- Turkish
- Sinir Bitkisi
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Fittonia albivenis (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.