Chuparosa
Justicia californica (Benth.) D.N.Gibson
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 91 cm
- wide
- 1.2 m
Acanthaceae
Also called Beloperone
Formerly Beloperone californica
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
- Desert or dry shrublandKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- California to NW. MexicoKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Southern Nevada Water Authority and University of Arizona Arboretum, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 30 cm to 1.5 mRead from Southern Nevada Water Authority, one source
- Spread
- 61 cm to 1.8 mRead from Southern Nevada Water Authority, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from Southern Nevada Water Authority and University of Arizona Arboretum, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- Red, yellowRead from Southern Nevada Water Authority, University of Arizona Arboretum and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by 2 of 3 sources. Sources differ: Southern Nevada Water Authority red, yellow; University of Arizona Arboretum red; Wikipedia red, yellow
- Coldest it survives
- -12.2 °C (USDA zone 8a)Read from Southern Nevada Water Authority, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (4)
- Spanish
- chuparrosa
- root
- coomeme, pisily
- Russian
- Юстиция калифорнийская
- Chinese (China)
- 加州爵床
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
- Southern Nevada Water Authority, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- University of Arizona Arboretum, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, 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: Justicia californica (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.