| Scientific Name: | Justicia brandegeeana |
| Common Name: | shrimp plant |
| Family Name: | Acanthaceae |
| Origin: | Mexico |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (grown as) |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Pyramidal - widely |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Bedding plant, Container planting, Filler, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Heavily veined, Pubescent, Elliptic, Entire, Undulate (wavy) |
| Flowers: | Spike, Yellow, Pink, Red, Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, ovate-lanceolate, most blades 3-11cm long x 2-5cm wide, margin entire, petioles 1-3cm long; florets arranged in a shrimp-like spike with reddish or rarely yellow bracts, corolla tubes 1.5-4cm long, white to lilac. | |