Spiny Acanthus
Spikes of lavender-pink flowers above large, spiny-edged leaves. Kakamega Forest.
Cheperenet
Blue flowers with five, slightly unequal petals. Two enlarged sepals below the bloom resemble a scallop shell. Mostly herbaceous.
Spiny Barleria
Small, bright yellow flowers with five lobes and two anthers appear above a spiny, low-growing, leafy shrub. Grassland habitat.
Barleria #2
Mostly hebaceous plant with peach-colored flowers. The slender spines are like fine needles.
Black-eyed Susan Vine
Unmistakable flower on a vine that grows in gardens and in sunny borders.
Orange Clock Vine
The floral tube is angled below and the limb is pure solid orange.
Gold Clock Vine
The throat and petals are golden yellow on the upper surface, whitish below. Small vine.
Crossandra sp.
Low growing plant of shrub-savanna habitat. Flowers look like thin slices of smoked salmon.
Jammy Mouth
Large, peculiar orange-red flowers on shrub with thin branches. The rim of the flower throat is thickened and nearly black in color.
Blue Trumpet Vine
The stems reach several meters and are conspicuously angled at each stem node securing this climbing plant. Yellow-throated, blue flowers.
Justicia sp.
Stems of this leafy plant were about 1 to 2 m tall. Clusters of small purple and white flowers in crowded, terminal, spikes.
Justicia insularis?
Sometime a weedy plant with lavender flowers. Tubular flower with 3 + 2 lobes and a distinct nectar guide in throat.
Justicia anselliana
Very dimunitive species growing among ferns in moist, understory habitat. Kongelai Escarpment. Flowers pale blue.
Justicia (?)
On a dry rocks slope near Voi. Brilliant blue flowers on a low much-branched shrub, about 2 dm tall.
Justicia ??
Shubby acanth with large blue flowers from Kakmega Forest.
Justicia (?)
The small white flowers are set in dense, terminal spikes. Large elliptical leaves are prominently veined. Kakamega Forest.
Brillantaisia
The tubular flowers have a very wide, open throat. Deltoid leaves have long winged petioles. Kakamega forest understory.
Brillantaisia sp.
Largely herbaceous plant at Kakamega Forest with large leaves and deep purple flowers.
Ruellia sp.
Large, blue-purple flowers on low growing sub-shrub. No thorns.
Ruellia sp.
This white-flowered herb, growing very close to ground, resists grazing cattle/goats in the Rift Valley highlands. Shown here is a developing fruit.
Ruellia sp.
Purple-flowered mostly small herbaceous plant. Low growing on rangeland.
Duosperma
The small, two-lipped flowers are crowded at the stem nodes where the leaves are opposite. Shrubby plants with a number of straight stems about a meter plus tall.
Asystasia ?
The small, two-lipped flowers are arrayed on a narrow spike. Two stamens are positioned above a deep purple on lower petal.