Canary Islands Flora Garden

Acanthaceae

Justicia hyssopifolia L.

Mataprieta

A low-growing shrub, rarely exceeding 1 m in height, highly branched and woody, with light-colored branches. Leaves opposite or in whorls of 3-4, ovate to oblong-lanceolate, and green, though sometimes yellowish. Flowers axillary, with bilabiate corollas, and yellowish-white. Endemic to the Canary Islands.