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Justica ovata Acanthaceae (Acanthus) Family  Plant is an upright or trailing, branching aquatic perennial from a rhizome. Its preferred habitat is streams, lakes and ditches with standing water. Distribution is throughout the Escambia region. Leaves are opposite on the stem; mostly without leaf stalks; linear to lance-like or may be egg-shaped. Flowers are pale purple to almost white with purple spotting in the throat and lower lip; bisexual; irregular in shape. Calyx is five lobed. Corolla is two-lipped with the upper lip notched and the lower lip three-lobed. Most flowers appear on the same side of the flower spike; arising from the leaf axil. Flowering occurs in the summer. Fruit is a capsule.  
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