Ageratum maritimumKunth

WFO wfo-0000083274 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Ageratum maritimum, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. a Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / 2015-10-08 / obs. 2558392

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Ageratum maritimum is native: Mexico Southeast, Cuba, Dominican Republic Mexico SoutheastCubaDominican Republic
Native distribution of Ageratum maritimum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Cuba CUB SOUTHERN AMERICA
Dominican Republic DOM
Mexico Southeast MXT NORTHERN AMERICA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 84 in flower of 90 examined

Proportion of examined Ageratum maritimum in flower, by month
Month In flower Examined Share 95% interval
Jan 9 9 100% 70% to 100%
Feb 14 14 100% 78% to 100%
Mar 3 3 too few examined
Apr 11 13 85% 58% to 96%
May 7 7 100% 65% to 100%
Jun 7 7 100% 65% to 100%
Jul 6 7 86% 49% to 97%
Aug 8 8 100% 68% to 100%
Sep 6 7 86% 49% to 97%
Oct 2 3 too few examined
Nov 3 3 too few examined
Dec 8 9 89% 56% to 98%

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Ageratum maritimum observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 84 of 90 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 3 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 6 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Ageratum littorale var. hondurense B.L.Rob.
  • Ageratum maritimum f. calvum B.L.Rob.
  • Ageratum maritimum f. maritimum
  • Ageratum maritimum var. maritimum
  • Caelestina maritima Torr. & A.Gray
  • Eupatorium nudispermum Sessé & Moc.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.