Shrimp plant
Justicia brandegeeana Wassh. & L.B.Sm.
- light
- Part sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 80 cm
- wide
- 75 cm
Acanthaceae
Also called Shrimpplant
Formerly Beloperone guttata, Calliaspidia guttata, Drejerella guttata
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
- Subshrub or shrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to C. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from RHS and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS part; UF/IFAS full, part
- Height
- 61 cm to 99 cmRead from RHS and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 0.5–1 m; UF/IFAS 2–6 ft
- Spread
- 51 cm to 99 cmRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from RHS and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS pink, white; UF/IFAS white
- Coldest it survives
- 10 °C (USDA zone 12a)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Camarón rojo, planta de camarón
- Chinese
- 蝦衣草, 麒麟吐珠, 小蝦花
- Japanese
- コエビソウ, オウムソウ, 小海老草
- Czech
- beloporona tečkovaná
- Portuguese
- Flor-Camarão
- Bulgarian
- Мексиканско скаридено растение
- Chinese (China)
- 虾衣花
- Russian
- Юстиция желтоволосистая
- French
- Plante crevette
- Swedish
- lyckoax
- Polish
- Strzałkowiec grzechotkowy
- Finnish
- onnenkäpy
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- UF/IFAS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Justicia brandegeeana (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.