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Ruellia Strepens

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Ruellia Strepens

Other names: Smooth Ruellia

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What is the plant

Ruellia strepens, commonly called wild petunia or smooth ruellia, is native to Missouri where it typically occurs in rich open woods, thickets and borders of streams and ponds throughout the State. Features pale lilac to lavender petunia-like flowers (to 2” long) with five flaring lobes.

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Humidity

Normal

Lighting

Shade

Hardiness zone

5 - 8

Difficulty

Medium

How to Care for the Plant

Water
Medium
Fertilizer
Weekly 0,2%ig or long-term fertilizer.
Sunlight
The preference is light shade or partial sun, moist to mesic conditions, and either loamy or rocky soil containing some organic matter.

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Soil
Easily grown in moist, organically rich, well-drained soils in part shade. Tolerates close to full shade.
Temperature
22-25°C
Additional
Ruellia strepens, commonly called wild petunia or smooth ruellia, is native to Missouri where it typically occurs in rich open woods, thickets and borders of streams and ponds throughout the State. It is a glabrous (without hairs) to sparingly hairy clump-forming perennial that grows 1-3' tall.

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Popularity
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