Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Ruellia nudiflora var. runyonii
Ruellia nudiflora (Engelm. & A. Gray) Urb. var. runyonii (Tharp & F.A. Barkley) B.L. Turner
Runyon's Wild Petunia
Acanthaceae (Acanthus Family)
USDA Symbol: RUNURUSDA Native Status: L48 (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Ruellia runyonii var. berlandieri
Wild Petunia
Acanthaceae
Location: 85 Campden Circle, rear yard-Oakwell Farms, San AntonioLatitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Adventitious in disturbed soil. Several well established colonies. Deep, aluvial soil. Semi-shade.
Description: Erect perennial, to 5 cm tall from short rhizomes. Bears terminal panicles of normal flowers (deep bluish-purple/3-4 cm long) & lateral, few flowered panicles of cleistogamous flowers (maturing prior to normals). Leaves & stems pilosuious, but not velvety. Calyces & cleistogamous fruit glandular-pubescent (not as var runynii). Flowering branches densely pilosulous.
County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Jun 18, 1994
Specimen number: 607
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0893
Accession Date: Aug 23, 1994
Accession Number: 66
Annotations: SCFXB (In flower & fruit)