Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_plumbago_auriculata
Blue Plumbago
Plumbago auriculata
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About Blue Plumbago
A sprawling to climbing woody shrub with obovate-to-elliptic, smooth-edged leaves and rounded to shortly pointed tips. Pale-blue flowers have long slender tubes and broad spreading lobes. The ribbed calyx carries sticky stalked glands on its upper portion. 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
- Plumbago auriculata
- Common names
- blue plumbago · Cape leadwort
- Other names
- Plumbago auriculata · blue plumbago · Cape leadwort
- 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. Detailed fruit and seed characters are not supplied by the reviewed account. Preserve sticky gland-bearing calyces.
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; scrambling 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 sprawling to climbing woody shrub with obovate-to-elliptic, smooth-edged leaves and rounded to shortly pointed tips. Pale-blue flowers have long slender tubes and broad spreading lobes. The ribbed calyx carries sticky stalked glands on its upper portion. 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.