Boerhavia coccineaMill.

scarlet spiderling

WFO wfo-0000567894 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Boerhavia coccinea, photographed by ritirene
fig. a ritirene, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-18 / obs. 198777733
Boerhavia coccinea, photographed by Andrew Meeds
fig. b Andrew Meeds, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192702051
Boerhavia coccinea, photographed by Casey H. Richart
fig. c Casey H. Richart, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194512182
Boerhavia coccinea, photographed by Alexandre Passos
fig. d Alexandre Passos, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197169895
Boerhavia coccinea, photographed by Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez
fig. e Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 205840654
Boerhavia coccinea, photographed by CK2AZ
fig. f CK2AZ, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202446800
Boerhavia coccinea, photographed by Rodolfo Salinas Villarreal
fig. g Rodolfo Salinas Villarreal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201330179
Boerhavia coccinea, photographed by Luc Wyn
fig. h Luc Wyn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188882848

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Flowering n = 915 observations

Peak flowering in Sep, from 915 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.

  • Boerhavia agglutinans Batt. & Trab.
  • Boerhavia bracteata T.Cooke
  • Boerhavia caribaea Jacq.
  • Boerhavia coccinea f. parcehirsuta Heimerl
  • Boerhavia coccinea var. viscosa (Lag. & Rodr.) Moscoso
  • Boerhavia diandra Aubl.
  • Boerhavia diffusa f. crassifolia Domin
  • Boerhavia diffusa var. hirsuta Heimerl
  • Boerhavia diffusa var. hirta Balle
  • Boerhavia diffusa var. mutabilis (R.Br.) Heimerl
  • Boerhavia diffusa var. viscosa (Lag. & Rodr.) Heimerl
  • Boerhavia diffusa var. xerophila Domin
  • Boerhavia ixodes Standl.
  • Boerhavia marlothii Heimerl
  • Boerhavia nantocana Schauer
  • Boerhavia reboudiana Pomel
  • Boerhavia repens subsp. viscosa (Lag. & Rodr.) Maire
  • Boerhavia repens var. undulata Asch. & Schweinf.
  • Boerhavia repens var. viscosa Choisy
  • Boerhavia viscosa Lag. & Rodr.
  • Boerhavia viscosa f. oligadena Heimerl
  • Boerhavia viscosa subsp. apiculata Standl.

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.