Alstroemeria aurea (Peruvian-lily)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Alstroemeria aurea, photographed by Jon Sullivan — fig. a Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-02 / obs. 194980448

Alstroemeria aurea, photographed by nitsuga74 — fig. c nitsuga74, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188390489

Alstroemeria aurea, photographed by Ezequiel Racker — fig. d Ezequiel Racker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196413611

Alstroemeria aurea, photographed by Lauu — fig. e Lauu, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178807155

Alstroemeria aurea, photographed by Francisco E. Fonturbel — fig. f Francisco E. Fonturbel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175201201

Alstroemeria aurea, photographed by John Barkla — fig. g John Barkla, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174352113

Alstroemeria aurea, photographed by Leonel Roget — fig. h Leonel Roget, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180466547

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Native distribution of Alstroemeria aurea, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Argentina South	AGS	SOUTHERN AMERICA
Chile Central	CLC
Chile South	CLS

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 221 in flower of 228 examined

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93%

86%

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98%

Proportion of examined Alstroemeria aurea in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	100	100	100%	96% to 100%
Feb	56	60	93%	84% to 97%
Mar	6	7	86%	49% to 97%
Apr	2	3	too few examined
May	1	1	too few examined
Jun	2	2	too few examined
Jul	0	0	too few examined
Aug	1	1	too few examined
Sep	1	1	too few examined
Oct	0	0	too few examined
Nov	6	6	100%	61% to 100%
Dec	46	47	98%	89% to 100%

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Alstroemeria aurea 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. 221 of 228 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 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 9 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.

Alstroemeria araucana Phil.
Alstroemeria aurantiaca D.Don
Alstroemeria chiloensis Phil.
Alstroemeria concolor Steud.
Alstroemeria mutabilis Kunze ex Kunth
Alstroemeria nivalis Meyen
Alstroemeria peruviana Van Houtte
Alstroemeria pulchella E.Vilm.
Alstroemeria xanthina Phil.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
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.