Centella erecta(L.f.) Fernald

erect centella

WFO wfo-0000594124 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Centella erecta, photographed by Cody Stricker
fig. a Cody Stricker, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-20 / obs. 199175923
Centella erecta, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. b Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193389297
Centella erecta, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. c Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187361446
Centella erecta, photographed by Mike Duran
fig. d Mike Duran, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183951454
Centella erecta, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. e Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179176424
Centella erecta, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. f Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176422620
Centella erecta, photographed by kcthetc1
fig. g kcthetc1, CC0 1.0 / obs. 172653009
Centella erecta, photographed by Matt Berger
fig. h Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 153791821

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Native range 47 botanical countries

Regions where Centella erecta is native: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Chile Central, Chile South, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Galápagos, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Juan Fernández Is., Leeward Is., Nicaragua, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Uruguay, Venezuela, Windward Is. AlabamaArkansasFloridaGeorgiaLouisianaMarylandMexico NortheastMexico SoutheastMississippiNew JerseyNorth CarolinaSouth CarolinaTexasVirginiaArgentina NortheastArgentina NorthwestBelizeBoliviaBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralChile CentralChile SouthColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEl SalvadorGuatemalaHaitiHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaParaguayPuerto RicoTrinidad-TobagoUruguayVenezuela DelawareBahamasCayman Is.GalápagosLeeward Is.Turks-Caicos Is.Windward Is.
Native distribution of Centella erecta, 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
Bahamas BAH
Belize BLZ
Bolivia BOL
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Cayman Is. CAY
Chile Central CLC
Chile South CLS
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
El Salvador ELS
Galápagos GAL
Guatemala GUA
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Juan Fernández Is. JNF
Leeward Is. LEE
Nicaragua NIC
Paraguay PAR
Puerto Rico PUE
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Turks-Caicos Is. TCI
Uruguay URU
Venezuela VEN
Windward Is. WIN
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Arkansas ARK
Delaware DEL
Florida FLA
Georgia GEO
Louisiana LOU
Maryland MRY
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mississippi MSI
New Jersey NWJ
North Carolina NCA
South Carolina SCA
Texas TEX
Virginia VRG

Not drawn on the map: Juan Fernández Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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 75 in flower of 192 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Centella erecta 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. 75 of 192 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. One month has fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for it. 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.

Also published as 15 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.

  • Centella asiatica var. floridana J.M.Coult. & Rose
  • Centella biflora (Vell.) Nannf.
  • Centella dusenii Nannf.
  • Centella floridana Nannf.
  • Centella repanda (Pers.) Small
  • Centella repanda var. floridana Small
  • Centella triflora Nannf.
  • Chondrocarpus repandus (Pers.) Nutt.
  • Glyceria repanda (Pers.) Nutt.
  • Hydrocotyle asiatica f. luxurians Donn.Sm.
  • Hydrocotyle asiatica var. floridana J.M.Coult. & Rose
  • Hydrocotyle biflora Vell.
  • Hydrocotyle erecta L.f.
  • Hydrocotyle repanda Pers.
  • Hydrocotyle triflora Ruiz & Pav.

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.

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