Native to southern Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. It is commonly found around Mayan sites in Central America. In China, the flower is used as a traditional medicine to treat dysentery, while in Yucatan, Guatemala, and Belize it is used for beauty treatments. This plant is also often grown by communities as an ornamental plant, and its flowers and leaves are reported to be used to make tea. 

Adam hawa is found growing in coastal forests, scrublands, hanging forests, secondary forests, cultivated land, and disturbed areas, and prefers tropical and subtropical regions with temperatures ranging from 14-27 °C. It grows well in well-drained soils, including rocky, sandy, and limestone soils. It has a wide range of adaptations, thriving in lowland and highland areas, hot and cold regions, dry or wet conditions, and both sunny and shaded environments. 

• Fibrous roots, brownish.

• Stem rough, short, erect, brown, herbaceous, round in shape, with visible leaf scars, unbranched.

• Leaves simple, sword-shaped, pointed at the tip, base flat and clasping the stem, margins flat, soft, smooth, veins parallel, upper surface green, lower surface reddish-brown to purple.

• Compound flowers, in leaf axils, small, protected by two boat-shaped bracts, cylindrical stamens, white in color. Yellow pistil head, triangular corolla, three petals, white.

Vegetative propagation (cuttings, root fragments) and generative propagation (seeds).  

Cough (whooping cough, phlegmy, dry), dysentery, diarrhea, fungal infections, measles, cleansing the lungs and phlegm, treating nosebleeds, bloody stools (melena), rheumatism, constipation, anemia, swelling, wounds, antioxidants, antitumor, and antimutagenic. 

P-kumaroil-delphinidin 3,5-diglukosida, flavonoid, antosianin, saponin, karotenoid, terpenoid, kumarinik, dan steroid.