Identification Guide For Invasive Exotic Plants of the Florida Keys

Scientific Name:
Common Name(s):
Asystasia gangetica
Ganges primrose, Chinese violet
Height:
Leaves:
Flowers:
Bark:
Fruit:
Other:
Treatment:
Shrubby herb which grows to three feet in height but can grow over shrubs
up to ten feet tall.
Thin and ovate with few pairs of veins.
Violet or white flower grows on a vine that spreads over fences and up other
plants.
N/A
Seed irregularly disk-shaped, pale, margin irregularly scalloped.
Chinese violet grows in dry habitats between sea level and 1000 feet.
Plant tends to be bushy and sometimes slightly woody below.
Foliar with Roundup Pro
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