Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_justicia_spicigera
Mexican Indigo
Justicia spicigera
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About Mexican Indigo
A shrub with ovate-to-elliptic, pointed leaves and open flower clusters from upper leaf axils. Long orange-to-orange-red or mauve-to-pink corollas have a slightly hooded two-lobed upper lip and a curled-back three-lobed lower lip. Two stamens are held beneath the upper lip. Established wild occurrence warrants observations of occupied cover, reproductive plants and new recruits. These measurements can test persistence and spread. The reviewed accounts do not quantify an island-wide effect on Kauaʻi native vegetation.
Kauaʻi evidence
Generated media is not occurrence evidence. Proposed monitoring endpoints are not reported observations, measured effects or causal findings.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Justicia spicigera
- Common names
- Mexican indigo · firecracker plant · Mexican honeysuckle
- Other names
- Justicia spicigera · Mexican indigo · firecracker plant · Mexican honeysuckle
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Recorded on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Introduced
- Conservation status
- Not yet assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-07
- Evidence limits
- Island-level public occurrence only. Represent one orange-flowered form. Fruit and seed details were not supplied by the reviewed flora account.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Not yet assessed
- Food and resource needs
- Not yet assessed
- Reproduction
- Not yet assessed
- Shelter
- Not yet assessed
- Growth form
- Shrub or subshrub; shrub
Threats and conservation
- Monitoring
- Occupied area and vegetation cover; Mature plants and new recruits; Reproductive plants and fruiting frequency. Proposed monitoring endpoints are not reported observations, measured effects or causal findings.
- Data gaps
- Current island extent and population trend · Measured local ecological effects
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal timing
- Not yet assessed
- Seasonal description
- A shrub with ovate-to-elliptic, pointed leaves and open flower clusters from upper leaf axils. Long orange-to-orange-red or mauve-to-pink corollas have a slightly hooded two-lobed upper lip and a curled-back three-lobed lower lip. Two stamens are held beneath the upper lip. Established wild occurrence warrants observations of occupied cover, reproductive plants and new recruits. These measurements can test persistence and spread. The reviewed accounts do not quantify an island-wide effect on Kauaʻi native vegetation.