Wild petunia makes a perfect alternative to the non-native and highly invasive Mexican petunia. The flowers of wild petunia are very similar to those of Mexican petunia: They are a lovely shade of ...

Seeking a replacement for annual petunias? If so, you might want to consider wild petunia (Ruellia humilis), which mimic petunias and self-deadhead.

Wild Petunia Picturing a petunia, your mind's eye sees a floret that resembles an old-timey phonograph. Dip past its petals, and a nectar-filled tube awaits your hungry hummingbird visitors.

Many years ago, I bought a perennial plant at a nursery, and after I planted it, found that there was a ride-along plant in the pot. It was a wild petunia.

Petunias produce pretty summer flowers, and the native Carolina wild petunia is no exception. The wild petunia, scientifically known as Ruellia caroliniensis, is a Coastal Plain native perennial th… ...

WILD PETUNIAS Wild petunias in Bonnie Blodgett's yard in July 2022. (Courtesy of Bonnie Blodgett) Flowering annuals typically need deadheading every day (Does the heat make them flower more?

Supertunia Mini Vista Scarlet petunia will quickly become the one in which all other red petunias will be compared.

A better option is the lavender-flowered native known as wild petunia (R. caroliniensis), a 1-to-2-foot, upright species that ranges from North Carolina to South Florida.

But last week, when I was reporting a story about the Buffalo Bayou Partnership's new ecotruck, the Invasive Plant Eradication Unit, I spotted Britton's wild petunia- my Ruellia - painted on the ...

The hairyflower wild petunia, native to South America, is not a petunia but an herb from a large family of about 4,000 species found around the world, McDade said.