Index / Search / Ruellia nudiflora var. nudiflora
§1 Plant
Ruellia nudiflora (Engelm. & A. Gray) Urb. var. nudiflora
vernacular violet wild petunia — variety · Acanthaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Subshrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Acanthaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Ruellia
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 83 counties across 5 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 5 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 64 N ▾
- Aransas 48007
- Austin 48015
- Bastrop 48021
- Bell 48027
- Bexar 48029
- Blanco 48031
- Bosque 48035
- Brazoria 48039
- Brazos 48041
- Brewster 48043
- Brown 48049
- Burleson 48051
- Burnet 48053
- Caldwell 48055
- Calhoun 48057
- Cameron 48061
- Colorado 48089
- Comal 48091
- Dallas 48113
- Denton 48121
- DeWitt 48123
- Fayette 48149
- Galveston 48167
- Gillespie 48171
- Gonzales 48177
- Guadalupe 48187
- Harris 48201
- Hays 48209
- Hill 48217
- Hood 48221
- Jackson 48239
- Jefferson 48245
- Jim Wells 48249
- Johnson 48251
- Karnes 48255
- Kendall 48259
- Kenedy 48261
- Kerr 48265
- Kimble 48267
- Kleberg 48273
- Lavaca 48285
- Lee 48287
- Leon 48289
- Matagorda 48321
- McLennan 48309
- Milam 48331
- Montgomery 48339
- Navarro 48349
- Nueces 48355
- Refugio 48391
- Robertson 48395
- San Jacinto 48407
- San Patricio 48409
- Somervell 48425
- Sutton 48435
- Tarrant 48439
- Travis 48453
- Victoria 48469
- Walker 48471
- Waller 48473
- Washington 48477
- Wharton 48481
- Willacy 48489
- Williamson 48491
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/RUNUN ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5415406 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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