Index / Search / Justicia pilosella
§1 Plant
Justicia pilosella (Nees) Hilsenb.
vernacular Gregg's tube tongue — species · Acanthaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Subshrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Acanthaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Justicia
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 72 counties across 2 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 72 counties across 2 states/territories.
New Mexico view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 71 N ▾
- Atascosa 48013
- Bexar 48029
- Blanco 48031
- Brewster 48043
- Brown 48049
- Burnet 48053
- Calhoun 48057
- Callahan 48059
- Cameron 48061
- Coke 48081
- Comal 48091
- Crockett 48105
- Denton 48121
- DeWitt 48123
- Dimmit 48127
- Duval 48131
- Edwards 48137
- Frio 48163
- Gillespie 48171
- Goliad 48175
- Gonzales 48177
- Guadalupe 48187
- Hays 48209
- Hidalgo 48215
- Hudspeth 48229
- Irion 48235
- Jackson 48239
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Jim Hogg 48247
- Jim Wells 48249
- Karnes 48255
- Kendall 48259
- Kenedy 48261
- Kimble 48267
- Kinney 48271
- Kleberg 48273
- La Salle 48283
- Lampasas 48281
- Live Oak 48297
- Llano 48299
- Martin 48317
- Mason 48319
- Maverick 48323
- McMullen 48311
- Medina 48325
- Menard 48327
- Mills 48333
- Nueces 48355
- Palo Pinto 48363
- Pecos 48371
- Presidio 48377
- Reagan 48383
- Refugio 48391
- San Patricio 48409
- San Saba 48411
- Starr 48427
- Stephens 48429
- Sterling 48431
- Sutton 48435
- Taylor 48441
- Terrell 48443
- Throckmorton 48447
- Tom Green 48451
- Travis 48453
- Upton 48461
- Uvalde 48463
- Val Verde 48465
- Webb 48479
- Willacy 48489
- Wilson 48493
- Zapata 48505
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/JUPI5 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3771748 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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