Capsicum annuumL.

chili pepper

WFO wfo-0001019982 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–f

Capsicum annuum, photographed by Center for Urban Ecology
fig. a Center for Urban Ecology, CC0 1.0 / 2022-04-12 / obs. 187935655
Capsicum annuum, photographed by Center for Urban Ecology
fig. b Center for Urban Ecology, CC0 1.0 / obs. 186727735
Capsicum annuum, photographed by Center for Urban Ecology
fig. c Center for Urban Ecology, CC0 1.0 / obs. 179849648
Capsicum annuum, photographed by Center for Urban Ecology
fig. d Center for Urban Ecology, CC0 1.0 / obs. 183427983
Capsicum annuum, photographed by Center for Urban Ecology
fig. e Center for Urban Ecology, CC0 1.0 / obs. 178041645
Capsicum annuum, photographed by Center for Urban Ecology
fig. f Center for Urban Ecology, CC0 1.0 / obs. 178911484

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Flowering n = 447 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 447 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 103 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.

  • Capsicum abyssinicum A.Rich.
  • Capsicum angulosum Mill.
  • Capsicum angulosum var. torulosum Dunal
  • Capsicum angustifolium Dunal
  • Capsicum annuum f. annuum
  • Capsicum annuum f. erectum Makino
  • Capsicum annuum f. leucocarpum Kuntze
  • Capsicum annuum f. pendulum Makino
  • Capsicum annuum f. violaceum Kuntze
  • Capsicum annuum subsp. annuum
  • Capsicum annuum var. abbreviatum Fingerh.
  • Capsicum annuum var. acuminatum Fingerh.
  • Capsicum annuum var. angulosum (Mill.) Alef.
  • Capsicum annuum var. aviculare (Dierb.) D'Arcy & Eshbaugh
  • Capsicum annuum var. bicolor (Jacq.) Alef.
  • Capsicum annuum var. ceratocarpum (Fingerh.) Alef.
  • Capsicum annuum var. erectum Kuntze
  • Capsicum annuum var. fasciculatum (Sturtev.) Irish
  • Capsicum annuum var. globiferum (G.Mey.) Voss
  • Capsicum annuum var. globiferum (G.Mey.) Alef.
  • Capsicum annuum var. grossum (Willd.) Sendtn.
  • Capsicum annuum var. grossum (L.) Kuntze
  • Capsicum annuum var. longum (DC.) Sendtn.
  • Capsicum annuum var. longum (DC.) Kuntze

and 79 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.