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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies
  6. Acanthus Family
  7. Justiciinae
  8. Foldwings

genus

Foldwings

Dicliptera

Traits
Includes
2 native 1 introduced 3 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Chinese Dicliptera present
  • Branched Foldwing native
  • Uruguayan Firecracker Plant
  • Sixangle Foldwing native
  • Arizona Foldwing present
  • Dicliptera japonica present
  • Dye Foldwing present
  • False Buckweed
  • Dicliptera hyssopifolia
  • Dicliptera krugii
  • Dicliptera martinicensis

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Herbaceous plants
Plant type
Annual Perennial Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native foldwings All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Branched Foldwing Dicliptera brachiata caterpillars 4
  • Sixangle Foldwing Dicliptera sexangularis caterpillars 3 flowers 2

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