Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_plumbago_zeylanica
ʻIlieʻe
Plumbago zeylanica
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About ʻIlieʻe
A sprawling woody shrub with pointed ovate leaves and rounded bases. Slender tubular white flowers open into spreading lobes and have blue-purple anthers. Sticky stalked glands cover the calyx. Each small oblong fruit contains one dark purplish-brown seed. This native shrub is a component of Hawaiian vegetation. Monitoring mature plants, new recruits and occupied cover can assess persistence and replacement. The reviewed accounts do not establish a measured Kauaʻi population trend or quantify an ecosystem effect.
Kauaʻi evidence
Generated media is not occurrence evidence. Proposed monitoring endpoints are not reported observations, measured effects or causal findings.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Plumbago zeylanica
- Hawaiian names
- ʻilieʻe · ʻilieo · hilieʻe · ʻiliheʻe · lauhihi
- Other names
- Plumbago zeylanica · ʻilieʻe · ʻilieo · hilieʻe · ʻiliheʻe · lauhihi
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Recorded on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Indigenous
- Conservation status
- Not yet assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-07
- Evidence limits
- Island-level public occurrence only. Use white flowers, distinct from Blue Plumbago. Lauhihi is documented as a Niʻihau name.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Not yet assessed
- Food and resource needs
- Not yet assessed
- Reproduction
- Not yet assessed
- Shelter
- Not yet assessed
- Growth form
- Shrub or subshrub; Sprawling shrub, 1‒3 m tall; stems 0.5‒2.5 m long.
Threats and conservation
- Monitoring
- Occupied area and vegetation cover; Mature plants and new recruits; Reproductive plants and fruiting frequency. Proposed monitoring endpoints are not reported observations, measured effects or causal findings.
- Data gaps
- Current island extent and population trend · Measured local ecological effects
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal timing
- Not yet assessed
- Seasonal description
- A sprawling woody shrub with pointed ovate leaves and rounded bases. Slender tubular white flowers open into spreading lobes and have blue-purple anthers. Sticky stalked glands cover the calyx. Each small oblong fruit contains one dark purplish-brown seed. This native shrub is a component of Hawaiian vegetation. Monitoring mature plants, new recruits and occupied cover can assess persistence and replacement. The reviewed accounts do not establish a measured Kauaʻi population trend or quantify an ecosystem effect.