Index / Search / Ruellia occidentalis
§1 Plant
Ruellia occidentalis (A. Gray) Tharp & F.A. Barkley
vernacular western wild petunia — species · 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
· 24 counties across 1 state§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 24 counties across 1 state.
Texas view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Atascosa 48013
- Bexar 48029
- Brooks 48047
- Cameron 48061
- Dimmit 48127
- Duval 48131
- Hidalgo 48215
- Jim Hogg 48247
- Jim Wells 48249
- Karnes 48255
- Kinney 48271
- Kleberg 48273
- Live Oak 48297
- Maverick 48323
- McMullen 48311
- Medina 48325
- Real 48385
- San Patricio 48409
- Travis 48453
- Uvalde 48463
- Val Verde 48465
- Webb 48479
- Zapata 48505
- Zavala 48507
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/RUOC4 ↗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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