Aristea ecklonii

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Aristea ecklonii, photographed by Di Turner — fig. b Di Turner, CC0 1.0 / obs. 194976331

Aristea ecklonii, photographed by Joe Dillon — fig. d Joe Dillon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175981537

Aristea ecklonii, photographed by Matthew Fainman — fig. e Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173725946

Aristea ecklonii, photographed by Dr. Alexey Yakovlev — fig. f Dr. Alexey Yakovlev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 674781881

Aristea ecklonii, photographed by Thomas Mesaglio — fig. g Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165772280

Aristea ecklonii, photographed by Oscar Dove — fig. h Oscar Dove, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163950917

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Native distribution of Aristea ecklonii, 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
Burundi	BUR	AFRICA
Cameroon	CMN
Cape Provinces	CPP
DR Congo	ZAI
Eswatini	SWZ
KwaZulu-Natal	NAT
Mozambique	MOZ
Northern Provinces	TVL
Rwanda	RWA
Tanzania	TAN
Uganda	UGA
Zimbabwe	ZIM

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 301 in flower of 345 examined

78%

55%

50%

87%

63%

67%

58%

92%

98%

93%

80%

Proportion of examined Aristea ecklonii in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	25	32	78%	61% to 89%
Feb	6	11	55%	28% to 79%
Mar	5	10	50%	24% to 76%
Apr	13	15	87%	62% to 96%
May	5	8	63%	31% to 86%
Jun	3	3	too few examined
Jul	4	6	67%	30% to 90%
Aug	7	12	58%	32% to 81%
Sep	36	39	92%	80% to 97%
Oct	127	130	98%	93% to 99%
Nov	50	54	93%	82% to 97%
Dec	20	25	80%	61% to 91%

Peak flowering in Oct. Each bar is the share of Aristea ecklonii 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. 301 of 345 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. One month has fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for it. 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.

Aristea cyanea De Wild.
Aristea dichotoma Eckl. ex Klatt
Aristea lastii Baker
Aristea maitlandii Hutch.
Aristea paniculata Pax
Aristea stipitata R.C.Foster

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.
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.