Hypoestes verticillaris

White ribbon bush

Description 4

Perennial herb often sprawling, up to 1 m tall. Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate, 2-8 cm long, covered in short hairs. Flowers in terminal and axillary clusters, held in glandular hairy bracts; corolla 2-lipped, white to pale pinkish with dark lilac markings.

Sources and Credits

  1. (c) Mark Hyde, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/images/15/154290-1.jpg
  2. (c) Bart Wursten, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/images/15/154290-3.jpg
  3. (c) Bart Wursten, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/images/15/154290-4.jpg
  4. (c) Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/19248477

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