Index / Search / Justicia lanceolata
§1 Plant
Justicia lanceolata (Chapm.) Small
vernacular looseflower water-willow — species · Acanthaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Acanthaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Justicia
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 175 counties across 10 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 175 counties across 10 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 33 N ▾
- Arkansas 05001
- Ashley 05003
- Bradley 05011
- Calhoun 05013
- Clay 05021
- Cleveland 05025
- Columbia 05027
- Craighead 05031
- Crittenden 05035
- Cross 05037
- Dallas 05039
- Drew 05043
- Hempstead 05057
- Hot Spring 05059
- Howard 05061
- Jackson 05067
- Jefferson 05069
- Lee 05077
- Little River 05081
- Miller 05091
- Mississippi 05093
- Monroe 05095
- Nevada 05099
- Perry 05105
- Prairie 05117
- Pulaski 05119
- Saline 05125
- Sevier 05133
- St. Francis 05123
- Union 05139
- Washington 05143
- White 05145
- Woodruff 05147
Florida view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 60 N ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Ascension 22005
- Assumption 22007
- Avoyelles 22009
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Carroll 22035
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Iberia 22045
- Iberville 22047
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson 22051
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- Lafayette 22055
- Lafourche 22057
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Livingston 22063
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Pointe Coupee 22077
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Helena 22091
- St. James 22093
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- Vernon 22115
- Washington 22117
- Webster 22119
- West Baton Rouge 22121
- West Carroll 22123
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Mississippi view state ↗ 38 N ▾
- Alcorn 28003
- Amite 28005
- Bolivar 28011
- Calhoun 28013
- Carroll 28015
- Chickasaw 28017
- Clay 28025
- Coahoma 28027
- Greene 28041
- Grenada 28043
- Hinds 28049
- Holmes 28051
- Humphreys 28053
- Itawamba 28057
- Jackson 28059
- Jasper 28061
- Jefferson 28063
- Lafayette 28071
- Lamar 28073
- Leake 28079
- Lee 28081
- Leflore 28083
- Madison 28089
- Monroe 28095
- Newton 28101
- Noxubee 28103
- Pearl River 28109
- Pike 28113
- Quitman 28119
- Simpson 28127
- Smith 28129
- Tunica 28143
- Warren 28149
- Washington 28151
- Webster 28155
- Wilkinson 28157
- Winston 28159
- Yazoo 28163
Missouri view state ↗ 9 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/JULA3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3777009 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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