Gregg's Tube Tongue
Justicia pilosellanative · Hill Country
Gregg's Tube Tongue is a shrub native to the Texas Hill Country that grows 0.5–1 ft tall and 1 ft wide. It wants full sun or part shade and low water. Blooms white, pink and purple in Apr–Oct. Good for butterflies.
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The facts
4 sources- Type
- Shrub
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (3–6 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- Low
- Height
- 0.5–1 ft
- Spread
- 1 ft
- Bloom
- Apr–Oct · white, pink, purple
- Foliage
- Deciduous or dies back in winter
- Soil
- Recorded on dry, gravelly, moist, rocky
- Wildlife
- Supports butterflies
Where it grows
Recorded in these EPA Level IV ecoregions in the Austin and Hill Country launch area:
Balcones CanyonlandsLlano UpliftEdwards Plateau WoodlandSouthern Post Oak SavannaFloodplains and Low Terraces
1,261 occurrence records in Central Texas (GBIF).
Can you buy it?
Also grows here — hard to find. Native and recorded growing in Central Texas, but not on the grower stock lists we read. Sourcing varies: some are stocked widely, others you will have to hunt for.