Bouvardia ternifolia(Cav.) Schltdl.

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WFO wfo-0000373849 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Bouvardia ternifolia, photographed by Jordi Martínez Martínez
fig. a Jordi Martínez Martínez, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-13 / obs. 199910503
Bouvardia ternifolia, photographed by sprcrkwild
fig. b sprcrkwild, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201926207
Bouvardia ternifolia, photographed by Jordi Martínez Martínez
fig. c Jordi Martínez Martínez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197701939
Bouvardia ternifolia, photographed by Jordi Martínez Martínez
fig. d Jordi Martínez Martínez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197701468
Bouvardia ternifolia, photographed by Jordi Martínez Martínez
fig. e Jordi Martínez Martínez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192653448
Bouvardia ternifolia, photographed by Luc Wyn
fig. f Luc Wyn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166520953
Bouvardia ternifolia, photographed by Liliana Ramírez-Freire
fig. g Liliana Ramírez-Freire, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194568914
Bouvardia ternifolia, photographed by Cricket Raspet
fig. h Cricket Raspet, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170555521

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Flowering n = 1,389 observations

Peak flowering in Jul, from 1,389 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 31 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.

  • Bouvardia angustifolia Kunth
  • Bouvardia coccinea (Andrews) Link
  • Bouvardia elegans Bosse
  • Bouvardia endlichii Loes.
  • Bouvardia fruticosa Sessé & Moc.
  • Bouvardia glaberrima Engelm.
  • Bouvardia hirtella Kunth
  • Bouvardia hirtella var. quaternifolia (DC.) Rothr.
  • Bouvardia houtteana Schltdl.
  • Bouvardia hypoleuca Benth.
  • Bouvardia jacquinii Kunth
  • Bouvardia jacquinii var. exogyna DC.
  • Bouvardia jacquinii var. ovata DC.
  • Bouvardia linearis Kunth
  • Bouvardia microphylla Schltdl.
  • Bouvardia orizabensis Standl.
  • Bouvardia ovata A.Gray
  • Bouvardia quaternifolia DC.
  • Bouvardia scabrida M.Martens & Galeotti
  • Bouvardia splendens Graham
  • Bouvardia tenuiflora Schltdl.
  • Bouvardia ternifolia var. angustifolia (Kunth) B.L.Rob.
  • Bouvardia tolucana Hook. & Arn.
  • Bouvardia triphylla Salisb.

and 7 more.

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.