Common Name: stickbush
Family: Lamiaceae
Common Synonyms: none
USDA Hardiness Zone: 9b-11
Growth Habit: Shrub
Origin: Asia
FISC Category: -
FDACS Listed Noxious Weed: No
Introduction Date: Earliest Florida specimen vouchered in 1965
IFAS Assessment:
Shrubs up to 3 m tall, finely pubescent throughout, branches and stems quadrangular. Leaves membranous, broadly ovate to triangular-ovate, 6-25 cm long, 5-25 cm wide, both surfaces sparsely to moderately strigillose, margins coarsely and irregularly dentate, apex acute, and base cordate to truncate. Inflorescences terminal, cymose, densely many-flowered, subsessile or short-pendulate, often subtended by a pair of foliaceous bracts, bracteoles numerous, oblong or elliptic, 1.5-3 cm long, strigillose, especially along the margins. Flowers are fragrant, calyx purple or red, sometimes with white spots, campanulate, 10-15 mm long, 5-lobed, the lobes anceolate, apex acuminate, corolla pale pink, usually doubled by petaloid stamens, stamens and ovary usually modified into extra petals. Fruits are rarely developed.
Mostly disturbed areas
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PIER. 2011. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): Clerodendrum chinense. http://www.hear.org/pier/species/clerodendrum_chinense.htm. Accessed on June 26, 2014.
Plantwise. 2014. Plantwise Knowledge Bank, Chinese Glory Bower (Clerodendrum chinense). http://www.plantwise.org/KnowledgeBank/datasheet.aspx?dsid=113371. Accessed on June 27, 2014.