Chaptalia nutans(L.) Pol.

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WFO wfo-0000086844 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Chaptalia nutans, photographed by andrea_janin
fig. a andrea_janin, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-10-22 / obs. 164977644
Chaptalia nutans, photographed by Eduardo Luis Beltrocco
fig. b Eduardo Luis Beltrocco, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 159866345
Chaptalia nutans, photographed by Eduardo Luis Beltrocco
fig. c Eduardo Luis Beltrocco, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 125992181
Chaptalia nutans, photographed by Nina P. C.
fig. d Nina P. C., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 97307939
Chaptalia nutans, photographed by Pablo H Capovilla
fig. e Pablo H Capovilla, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 94105894
Chaptalia nutans, photographed by Regina Piazza
fig. f Regina Piazza, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 87648318
Chaptalia nutans, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. g Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 67681396
Chaptalia nutans, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. h Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 66877360

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Native range 37 botanical countries

Regions where Chaptalia nutans is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, Windward Is. Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestArgentina NortheastArgentina NorthwestBelizeBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEcuadorEl SalvadorGuatemalaGuyanaHaitiHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPanamáParaguayPeruPuerto RicoSurinameTrinidad-TobagoUruguayVenezuela Leeward Is.Windward Is.
Native distribution of Chaptalia nutans, 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
Belize BLZ
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Guyana GUY
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER
Puerto Rico PUE
Suriname SUR
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Uruguay URU
Venezuela VEN
Windward Is. WIN
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

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 67 in flower of 92 examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Chaptalia nutans 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. 67 of 92 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.

Also published as 21 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.

  • Cacalia spatulata Sessé & Moc.
  • Chaptalia diversifolia Greene
  • Chaptalia ebracteata (Kuntze) K.Schum.
  • Chaptalia erosa Greene
  • Chaptalia majuscula Greene
  • Chaptalia nutans Hemsl.
  • Chaptalia nutans (L.) Hemsley
  • Chaptalia nutans var. nutans
  • Chaptalia subcordata Greene
  • Gerbera nutans (L.) Sch.Bip.
  • Gerbera nutans var. leiocarpa M.Gómez
  • Gerbera nutans var. nutans
  • Leria lyrata (Pers.) Cass.
  • Leria nutans (L.) DC.
  • Leria nutans (L.) Kunth
  • Leria nutans var. nutans
  • Thyrsanthema ebracteata Kuntze
  • Thyrsanthema nutans (L.) Kuntze
  • Tussilago lyrata Pers.
  • Tussilago nutans L.
  • Tussilago vaccina Vell.

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.