Solanaceae
Jamaican forget-me-not
Browallia americana
- Family
- Solanaceae
- Genus
- Browallia
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Common names
By language (5)
- Arabic
- برواليا أمريكية
- arz
- برواليا امريكيه
- Belarusian
- Бравалія ліпкая
- Chinese
- 美洲布落华丽, 美洲蓝英花
- English
- Jamaican forget-me-not
Synonyms
- Browallia alba Stehlé
- Browallia americana f. alba Stehlé
- Browallia americana f. americana
- Browallia americana f. demissa (L.) Kuntze
- Browallia americana f. elata (L.) Kuntze
- Browallia americana f. violacea Stehlé
- Browallia demissa Kuntze
- Browallia demissa L.
- Browallia dombeyana Dammer
- Browallia elata Kuntze
- Browallia elata L.
- Browallia elongata Kunth
- Browallia exaltata E.Fourn.
- Browallia lactea hort. ex G.Don
- Browallia linnaeana Spreng.
- Browallia melanotricha Brandegee
- Browallia nervosa Miers
- Browallia tenella Miers
- Browallia violacea Stehlé
- Browallia viscosa Kunth
- Nierembergia petunioides Dunal
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Annual
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: introduced, Puerto Rico: introduced
Photos
FlowerPhoto: portioid, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: portioid, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Jake Rehage, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Jo Roberts, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Carlos Domínguez-Rodríguez, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Bonnie Schrack, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Anders Dahl, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Stickpen, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: JMTBristol, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Patrícia Mees, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Katja Schulz from Washington, D. C., USA, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Hanny Vanessa Gonzalez Meneses, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF
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Sources: classification, synonyms 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.