Acanthaceae
Porcupine flower
Barleria prionitis
- Family
- Acanthaceae
- Genus
- Barleria
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Common names
By language (17)
- Bangla
- কাঁটাজাটি, কণ্টঝিন্টি, পীতঝিন্টি
- Burmese
- လိပ်ဆူးရွှေ၊, လိပ်ဆူးရွှေ
- Chinese
- 黃花假杜鵑, 黄花假杜鹃, 刺血红
- English
- Porcupine flower, Yellow hedge barleria
- French
- Picanier jaune, Porcupine flower
- Kannada
- ಆನೆ ಗೊರಂಟೆ
- mad
- Lanḍhep
- Malagasy
- Rointsokina, Roitsokena, Roitsokina
- Malayalam
- കുറുഞ്ഞി
- Marathi
- कोरांटी, वज्रदंती
- Sindhi
- شھديوي
- Sinhala
- කටු කරඬු
- Sundanese
- Jarong kembang landep
- Tamil
- சுள்ளி மலர்
- tcy
- ಆನೆ ಗೊರಂಟೆ
- Telugu
- ముల్లుగోరింట
- Thai
- อังกาบหนู, มันไก่, เขี้ยวเนื้อ, เขี้ยวแก้ง
Flowers
- In flower
- June, October to April (from 100 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Puerto Rico: introduced
Photos
FlowerPhoto: Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: John Brew, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: phiroza, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: J.M.Garg, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Andrew Hankey, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: J.M.Garg, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: S.MORE, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: J.M.Garg, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: S.MORE, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: J.M.Garg, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Raja Sekhar Chimirala, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
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Sources: classification from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.