Index / Search / Leonotis nepetifolia
§1 Plant
Leonotis nepetifolia (L.) R. Br.
vernacular Christmas candlestick — species · Lamiaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Lamiaceae Martinov
- Genus
- Leonotis
Native status, by region
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Introduced
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Introduced
County-level range
· 83 counties across 7 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 83 counties across 7 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 32 I ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Calhoun 12013
- Citrus 12017
- Collier 12021
- Columbia 12023
- DeSoto 12027
- Escambia 12033
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Glades 12043
- Hamilton 12047
- Hardee 12049
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Indian River 12061
- Jackson 12063
- Lafayette 12067
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Marion 12083
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Monroe 12087
- Okeechobee 12093
- Orange 12095
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Seminole 12117
- Sumter 12119
- Wakulla 12129
Georgia view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 21 I ▾
- Ascension 22005
- Assumption 22007
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- Franklin 22041
- Iberia 22045
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- Lafayette 22055
- Lafourche 22057
- Lincoln 22061
- Ouachita 22073
- Pointe Coupee 22077
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Vermilion 22113
- Washington 22117
- Webster 22119
Mississippi view state ↗ 2 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 3 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/LENE ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/4924659 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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