Aloysia gratissima(Gillies & Hook.) Tronc.

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WFO wfo-0000950823 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Aloysia gratissima, photographed by Florencia Grattarola
fig. a Florencia Grattarola, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-21 / obs. 199472660
Aloysia gratissima, photographed by Center for Urban Ecology
fig. b Center for Urban Ecology, CC0 1.0 / obs. 195392580
Aloysia gratissima, photographed by Center for Urban Ecology
fig. c Center for Urban Ecology, CC0 1.0 / obs. 194431573
Aloysia gratissima, photographed by Eduardo Luis Beltrocco
fig. d Eduardo Luis Beltrocco, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195578117
Aloysia gratissima, photographed by Center for Urban Ecology
fig. e Center for Urban Ecology, CC0 1.0 / obs. 189478691
Aloysia gratissima, photographed by Center for Urban Ecology
fig. f Center for Urban Ecology, CC0 1.0 / obs. 189627786
Aloysia gratissima, photographed by aacocucci
fig. g aacocucci, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189116656
Aloysia gratissima, photographed by mattmsa
fig. h mattmsa, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188790298

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Flowering n = 1,131 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 1,131 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 22 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.

  • Aloysia famatinensis Ravenna
  • Aloysia floribunda M.Martens & Galeotti
  • Aloysia gratissima f. macrophylla Moldenke
  • Aloysia gratissima var. gratissima
  • Aloysia gratissima var. paraguariensis (Briq.) Moldenke
  • Aloysia ligustrina var. paraguariensis (Briq.) Moldenke
  • Aloysia ligustrina var. schulzii (Standl.) Moldenke
  • Aloysia lycioides Cham.
  • Aloysia lycioides var. paraguariensis (Briq.) Moldenke
  • Aloysia lycioides var. schulziana (Moldenke) Siedo
  • Aloysia lycioides var. schulzii (Standl.) Moldenke
  • Aloysia mizquensis Ravenna
  • Lantana virgata Larrañaga
  • Lippia gratissima (Gillies & Hook.) L.D.Benson
  • Lippia gratissima var. schulziae (Standl.) L.D.Benson
  • Lippia gratissima var. schulzii (Standl.) L.D.Benson
  • Lippia ligustrina var. lasiodonta Briq.
  • Lippia ligustrina var. paraguariensis Briq.
  • Lippia ligustrina var. schulzii Standl.
  • Lippia lycioides (Cham.) Steud.
  • Verbena gratissima Gillies & Hook.
  • Verbena integerrima Larrañaga

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.

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