Hydroleaceae
Spiny false fiddleleaf
Hydrolea spinosa
- Family
- Hydroleaceae
- Genus
- Hydrolea
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Common names
By language (2)
- bjn
- Dadangkak
- English
- Spiny false fiddleleaf
Synonyms
- Ascleia mexicana Raf.
- Campanula americana var. hirsuta Houst. ex Sw.
- Ernstamra herbacea (Choisy) Kuntze
- Hydrolea extraaxillaris C.Morren
- Hydrolea latifolia Raf.
- Lycium capsulare L.
- Lycium capsulare L.
- Nama elegans (A.W.Benn.) Kuntze
- Nama extraaxillaris (C.Morren) Kuntze
- Nama paludosa (A.W.Benn.) Kuntze
- Nama spinosa (L.) Kuntze
- Reichelia palustris Billb. ex Beurl.
- Wigandia herbacea Choisy
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: native
Photos
Photo: Michael Wolf, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Nelson Zamora Villalobos, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Vojtěch Zavadil, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Nelson Zamora Villalobos, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Vojtěch Zavadil, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: accidentalshrike, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Jean-Yves Goret, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Projet :RECOLNAT, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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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.