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Longflower Tube Tongue
Justicia longii
Justicia longii (longflower tube tongue) is an herbaceous perennial subshrub in the acanthus family (Acanthaceae) found in the Arizona Upland of the Sonoran Desert.:34 Each of its white flowers blooms in the evening and lasts only a single night.:34 The next morning the corollas fall, littering the ground with a white carpet.:34 It has a long bloom season from April to October.:34
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 291006.