Bahiopsis chenopodina(Greene) E.E.Schill. & Panero

WFO wfo-0000136368 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 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.

Bahiopsis chenopodina, photographed by Bill Levine
fig. a Bill Levine, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-11-17 / obs. 105777893
Bahiopsis chenopodina, photographed by Tom Wainwright
fig. b Tom Wainwright, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63791789
Bahiopsis chenopodina, photographed by Enrique Martínez Núñez
fig. c Enrique Martínez Núñez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 5633125
Bahiopsis chenopodina, photographed by Casey H. Richart
fig. d Casey H. Richart, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194505018
Bahiopsis chenopodina, photographed by Bill Levine
fig. e Bill Levine, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 105777878
Bahiopsis chenopodina, photographed by Tom Wainwright
fig. f Tom Wainwright, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63791762
Bahiopsis chenopodina, photographed by Casey H. Richart
fig. g Casey H. Richart, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194505044

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Where it actually grows measured, from 45 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 11.6 °C 15.3 °C 17.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 26.2 °C 31.6 °C 35.2 °C
Annual rainfall 76 mm 182 mm 242 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 1 mm 2 mm 4 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 45 research-grade observations of Bahiopsis chenopodina that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 3 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.

  • Viguiera chenopodina Greene
  • Viguiera deltoidea var. chenopodina S.F.Blake
  • Viguiera deltoidea var. chenopodina (Greene) S.F.Blake

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 and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.