Cardinal’s Guard

The brilliant red flowers of Cardinal’s Guard appear from a spike of interesting green bracts. This tropical evergreen member of the Acanthaceae family has numerous latin names, including Pachystachys spicata, Pachystachys coccinea, Justicia coccinea, Jacobinia coccinea, and Justicia lutea.

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