Chevreulia sarmentosa(Pers.) S.F.Blake

WFO wfo-0000021699 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Chevreulia sarmentosa, photographed by Lauu
fig. a Lauu, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-08 / obs. 197293264
Chevreulia sarmentosa, photographed by Lauu
fig. b Lauu, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197293778
Chevreulia sarmentosa, photographed by Luis Parravicini
fig. c Luis Parravicini, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162284026

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Chevreulia sarmentosa is native: Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Bolivia, Brazil South, Chile Central, Chile South, Paraguay, Uruguay Argentina NortheastArgentina NorthwestArgentina SouthBoliviaBrazil SouthChile CentralChile SouthParaguayUruguay
Native distribution of Chevreulia sarmentosa, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina Northwest AGW
Argentina South AGS
Bolivia BOL
Brazil South BZS
Chile Central CLC
Chile South CLS
Paraguay PAR
Uruguay URU

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.

Also published as 7 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.

  • Chaptalia sarmentosa Vent. ex Steud.
  • Chevreulia stolonifera Cass.
  • Chevreulia thouarsii J.Rémy
  • Gnaphalium calycinum Poir.
  • Tussilago rheifolia Warsz.
  • Tussilago sarmentosa Pers.
  • Xeranthemum caespitosum Thouars

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. 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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