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Botanical details
- Family
- Acanthaceae
- Native to the UK
- No
- Potentially harmful
- Genus
Hypoestes
- Genus description
Hypoestes are tender evergreen perennials, subshrubs or shrubs, with simple leaves, often attractively coloured or patterned. Plants sometimes produce 2-lipped tubular flowers, but are more often grown for their foliage
- Name status
Accepted
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