How to identify Torenia cordata
Identify Torenia cordata by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a herb habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Heart-shaped (cordate) leaves.
- Confirm flower colour: Blue/purple.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: July-August.
- Confirm it sits within the Scrophulariaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Torenia cordata.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Torenia cordata
- Genus
- Torenia
- Family
- Scrophulariaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Evergreen forests
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Flowering & fruiting
- July-August
Leaf characters
- Arrangement
- Opposite
Typical of the Scrophulariaceae family — a field-mark hint, not measured for this exact species.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Blue/purplerecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Zygomorphic (bilaterally symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Raceme
- Fruit
- Capsule
Characters marked “recorded” are for Torenia cordata itself; the rest are typical of the Scrophulariaceae family — flowering plants only.
About Torenia cordata
Torenia cordata belongs to the Scrophulariaceae family, where it grows as a herb. It grows in evergreen forests. Flowering and fruiting run from July to August.
Scrophulariaceae
Figwort family
Torenia cordata belongs to the Scrophulariaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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