| Scientific Name: | Strobilanthes dyerianus |
| Common Name: | Persian shield |
| Family Name: | Acanthaceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (grown as), Indoor foliage plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Mounded |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Bedding plant, Container planting, Indoor plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Elliptic, Lanceolate, Ovate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Spike, Blue, Violet, Feb-Mar-Sep-Oct |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Nov-Dec |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, most ovate-lanceolate, 8-12(-20)cm long x 4-7(-10), mature with bright, metallic-purple stripes radiating outward from the central leaf vein. | |