Cardiospermum halicacabumL.

Lesser Balloon Vine

WFO wfo-0000587875 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Cardiospermum halicacabum, photographed by 祐
fig. a , CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-08 / obs. 195914401

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Flowering n = 421 observations

Flowering observations of Cardiospermum halicacabum by month
MonthObservations
Jan18
Feb12
Mar36
Apr39
May15
Jun14
Jul19
Aug67
Sep88
Oct56
Nov30
Dec27

Peak flowering in Sep, from 421 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 10 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 acuminatum Miq.
  • Cardiospermum corycodes Kunze
  • Cardiospermum glabrum Schumach. & Thonn.
  • Cardiospermum halicacabum var. grandiflorum A.Chev.
  • Cardiospermum halicacabum var. halicacabum
  • Cardiospermum inflatum Salisb.
  • Cardiospermum luridum Blume
  • Cardiospermum moniliferum Sw. ex Steud.
  • Corindum halicacabum (L.) Medik.
  • Rhodiola biternata Lour.

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.