Cardiospermum corindumL.

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WFO wfo-0000587847 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Cardiospermum corindum, photographed by Dave U
fig. a Dave U, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-02-11 / obs. 179046834
Cardiospermum corindum, photographed by Jim Riley
fig. b Jim Riley, CC0 1.0 / obs. 164667174
Cardiospermum corindum, photographed by Jim Riley
fig. c Jim Riley, CC0 1.0 / obs. 164667026
Cardiospermum corindum, photographed by Center for Urban Ecology
fig. d Center for Urban Ecology, CC0 1.0 / obs. 160503060
Cardiospermum corindum, photographed by Center for Urban Ecology
fig. e Center for Urban Ecology, CC0 1.0 / obs. 157570070
Cardiospermum corindum, photographed by Breno Figueiredo
fig. f Breno Figueiredo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 142879142
Cardiospermum corindum, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. g Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 128283777
Cardiospermum corindum, photographed by Tom Field
fig. h Tom Field, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112169695

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Native range 56 botanical countries

Regions where Cardiospermum corindum is native: Angola, Botswana, Caprivi Strip, Djibouti, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Somalia, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, China South-Central, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, Marianas, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Galápagos, Guatemala, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Netherlands Antilles, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Windward Is. AngolaBotswanaCaprivi StripDjiboutiEritreaEswatiniEthiopiaGuineaGulf of Guinea Is.KenyaKwaZulu-NatalNamibiaNorthern ProvincesSomaliaSudan-South SudanTanzaniaUgandaZambiaZimbabweChina South-CentralSaudi ArabiaYemenIndiaMyanmarSri LankaMexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SouthwestArgentina NortheastArgentina NorthwestBoliviaBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEcuadorEl SalvadorGuatemalaHaitiJamaicaParaguayPeruPuerto RicoTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela MarianasCayman Is.GalápagosLeeward Is.Netherlands AntillesWindward Is.
Native distribution of Cardiospermum corindum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina Northwest AGW
Bolivia BOL
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Cayman Is. CAY
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
Galápagos GAL
Guatemala GUA
Haiti HAI
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Netherlands Antilles NLA
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER
Puerto Rico PUE
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN
Windward Is. WIN
Angola ANG AFRICA
Botswana BOT
Caprivi Strip CPV
Djibouti DJI
Eritrea ERI
Eswatini SWZ
Ethiopia ETH
Guinea GUI
Gulf of Guinea Is. GGI
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Namibia NAM
Northern Provinces TVL
Somalia SOM
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
Uganda UGA
Zambia ZAM
Zimbabwe ZIM
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southwest MXS
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
Saudi Arabia SAU
Yemen YEM
India IND ASIA-TROPICAL
Myanmar MYA
Sri Lanka SRL
Marianas MRN PACIFIC

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 48 in flower of 86 examined

Peak flowering in Aug. Each bar is the share of Cardiospermum corindum observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 48 of 86 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 2 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 732 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 7.2 °C 14.3 °C 21.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 26.9 °C 32.4 °C 38.3 °C
Annual rainfall 114 mm 302 mm 1,378 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 1 mm 4 mm 157 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 732 research-grade observations of Cardiospermum corindum 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. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 38 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.

  • Cardiospermum alatum Bremek. & Oberm.
  • Cardiospermum canescens Wall.
  • Cardiospermum clematideum A.Rich.
  • Cardiospermum corindum f. angustisectum (Griseb.) Radlk.
  • Cardiospermum corindum f. brachycarpum Radlk.
  • Cardiospermum corindum f. elongatum Radlk.
  • Cardiospermum corindum f. ferrugineum Radlk.
  • Cardiospermum corindum f. leptocarpum Radlk.
  • Cardiospermum corindum f. loxense (Kunth) Radlk.
  • Cardiospermum corindum f. molle (Kunth) Radlk.
  • Cardiospermum corindum f. parviflorum (Cambess.) Radlk.
  • Cardiospermum corindum f. subglabratum Radlk.
  • Cardiospermum corindum f. subsetulosum Radlk.
  • Cardiospermum corindum f. villosum Radlk.
  • Cardiospermum corindum var. angustisectum (Griseb.) F.A.Barkley
  • Cardiospermum corindum var. elongatum (Radlk.) F.A.Barkley
  • Cardiospermum corindum var. leptocarpum (Radlk.) Ferrucci
  • Cardiospermum corindum var. loxense (Kunth) F.A.Barkley
  • Cardiospermum corindum var. subglabratum (Radlk.) F.A.Barkley
  • Cardiospermum ferrugineum A.Rich.
  • Cardiospermum galapageium B.L.Rob. & Greenm.
  • Cardiospermum giganteum Barb.Rodr.
  • Cardiospermum halicacabum var. angustisectum Griseb.
  • Cardiospermum keyense Small

and 14 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.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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.