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Scutellaria costaricana
Costa Rican Skullcap is a shrubby mint-family plant from Central America, grown for its showy tubular flowers. Keep it humid and bright, with consistently moist soil, and it does well as a tropical houseplant.
Scutellaria costaricana is a species of flowering plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae, that is native to Costa Rica and Panama. It is commonly known scarlet skullcap or Costa Rican skullcap and is a popular tropical houseplant.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Scutellaria costaricana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
