Wishbone flower
ടൊറീനിയ ഫോർണിയേരി
Torenia fournieri Linden ex E.Fourn.
- light
- Part sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 15 cm
- wide
- 18 cm
Linderniaceae
Also called Bluewings
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
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.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- India to S. China and Indo-China, TaiwanKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from NC State Extension and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension part, shade; UF/IFAS part
- Height
- 15 cmRead from NC State Extension and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 6–18 in; UF/IFAS 6–6 in
- Spread
- 15 cm to 20 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- White, purpleRead from NC State Extension and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension blue, purple, white; UF/IFAS pink, purple, violet, white, yellow
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from UF/IFAS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- flor de perro
- Chinese (China)
- 夏堇, 蓝猪耳
- Chinese
- 藍豬耳, 夏菫, 蓝猪耳
- Japanese
- ハナウリクサ, トレニア, ナツスミレ
- Russian
- Торения Фурнье
- Lithuanian
- Paprastoji torenija
- Thai
- แววมยุรา
- Danish
- ønskeblomst
- Finnish
- torenia
- Slovak
- torénia Fournierova
- Simplified Chinese
- 兰猪耳, 蓝猪耳
- Malayalam
- ടൊറീനിയ ഫോർണിയേരി
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, 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: Torenia fournieri (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.