Canna indicaL.

Indian shot

WFO wfo-0000343805 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Canna indica, photographed by Joe Dillon
fig. a Joe Dillon, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-06 / obs. 203786899
Canna indica, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. b Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 204431508
Canna indica, photographed by 雲一百香果
fig. c 雲一百香果, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202848696
Canna indica, photographed by Margaret Burger
fig. d Margaret Burger, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 195878965
Canna indica, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 201008162
Canna indica, photographed by Halema J
fig. f Halema J, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193141028
Canna indica, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. g Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 201049026
Canna indica, photographed by Kelvin Perrie
fig. h Kelvin Perrie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192659809

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Flowering n = 1,629 observations

Peak flowering in Oct, from 1,629 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 177 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.

  • Canna achiras Gill.
  • Canna achiras Gillies ex D.Don
  • Canna altensteinii Bouché
  • Canna amabilis T.Koyama & Nob.Tanaka
  • Canna ascendens Ciciar.
  • Canna atronigricans André
  • Canna aurantiaca Roscoe
  • Canna aurantiaca unranked splendida Année ex André
  • Canna aureovittata G.Lodd.
  • Canna barbadica Bouché
  • Canna bidentata Bertol.
  • Canna bifida Roem. & Schult.
  • Canna bihorellii G.Nicholson
  • Canna brasiliensis Roscoe ex Spreng.
  • Canna caledonispeltata Chaté
  • Canna carnea Roscoe
  • Canna cearensis Huber
  • Canna chinensis Willd.
  • Canna cinnabarina Bouché
  • Canna coccinea Mill.
  • Canna coccinea f. flaviflora Chodat & Hassl.
  • Canna coccinea var. bicolor Kraenzl.
  • Canna coccinea var. concolor Regel
  • Canna coccinea var. floribunda (Bouché) Regel

and 153 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.