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Thunbergia annua

Family
Acanthaceae (Acanthus family)
Grows as
Annual
Native range
Niger to Ethiopia and C. Tanzania, N. Botswana
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Thunbergia annua, the annual thunbergia, is a herbaceous upright plant, in the genus Thunbergia, and is native to multiple countries within Africa. Although it has never been found there, it is a considered a potentially invasive weed in Queensland, Australia.

Where it grows

Thunbergia annua can be found within many countries across Africa such as: Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Niger, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. The species inhabits seasonally dry grassland habitats where it can be found growing within clay soils. Thunbergia annua is also known to grow on arable land as a weed within cotton fields. It has been recorded at elevations of 1100 meters above sea level.

Other Thunbergia plants

Blackeyed Susan vine · Natal primrose · Blue Glory Vine · Thunbergia bicolor · Scarlet Clock Vine · Bush clockvine · Whitelady · Bengal trumpet · Golden Clockvine · Laurel clockvine · Thunbergia mildbraediana · Mysore Trumpetvine

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Thunbergia annua by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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