Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Help me find Green Shrimp Plant (browne's blechum), 0 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
Okay...I've scoured the internet and posted to the seed/plant exchange forums but can't seem to find any Green Shrimp Plant. This is from the acanthaceae (acanthus) family. Blechum pyramidatum aka Browne's Blechum. It is a perennial with sparsely hairy plant with stems that break quite easily. It has underground runners and gets about 2 feet tall. The flowers are small, tubular, whitish lavender and produced within large green bracts found at the tips of the stems. Possibly growing along the woods or shady areas in Florida. This is the larval host plant for the Malachite butterfly. We get malachites here and I'd like to raise them...but alas, I've hiked around the parks and all around 100 acres of scrub land back at the ranch but just cannot seem to find what they are using out in the field. I do see malachites but have never seen one ovipositing or even flying close to the ground thinking maybe it's looking for a larval host plant.

If anyone has any to trade, sell, give away or knows of a source for Green Shrimp Plant - please, please...pleeeeeeeeeeeese let me know.

~ Cat

This is a photo of the plant and the small blooms.