Chuquiraga jussieui

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Chuquiraga jussieui, photographed by George Pushkal — fig. b George Pushkal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 62771005

Chuquiraga jussieui, photographed by Christoph Moning — fig. c Christoph Moning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60540938

Chuquiraga jussieui, photographed by Franklin Checa — fig. d Franklin Checa, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 33760356

Chuquiraga jussieui, photographed by anguspritchard — fig. e anguspritchard, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150390030

Chuquiraga jussieui, photographed by Michael Bakker Paiva — fig. f Michael Bakker Paiva, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 12899903

Chuquiraga jussieui, photographed by Julien Renoult — fig. g Julien Renoult, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 12409607

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Native distribution of Chuquiraga jussieui, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Bolivia	BOL	SOUTHERN AMERICA
Colombia	CLM
Ecuador	ECU
Peru	PER

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 110 in flower of 120 examined

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Proportion of examined Chuquiraga jussieui in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	9	10	90%	60% to 98%
Feb	12	12	100%	76% to 100%
Mar	4	4	too few examined
Apr	9	9	100%	70% to 100%
May	9	12	75%	47% to 91%
Jun	7	8	88%	53% to 98%
Jul	10	12	83%	55% to 95%
Aug	9	9	100%	70% to 100%
Sep	6	8	75%	41% to 93%
Oct	8	8	100%	68% to 100%
Nov	14	15	93%	70% to 99%
Dec	13	13	100%	77% to 100%

Peak flowering in Feb. Each bar is the share of Chuquiraga jussieui 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. 110 of 120 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 20 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.

Chuquiraga fruticosa Juss. ex Steud.
Chuquiraga insignis (Willd.) Humb. & Bonpl.
Chuquiraga insignis Bonpl.
Chuquiraga insignis unranked microphylla (Bonpl.) Wedd.
Chuquiraga insignis var. armata Wedd.
Chuquiraga insignis var. genuina Wedd.
Chuquiraga insignis var. insignis
Chuquiraga insignis var. lancifolia (Humb. & Bonpl.) Wedd.
Chuquiraga insignis var. microphylla (Humb. & Bonpl.) DC.
Chuquiraga jussieui subsp. lancefolia (Humb. & Bonpl.) J.Kost.
Chuquiraga jussieui var. jussieui
Chuquiraga jussieui var. lancifolia (Humb. & Bonpl.) J.Kost.
Chuquiraga lancifolia Humb. & Bonpl.
Chuquiraga lancifolia Bonpl.
Chuquiraga microphylla Bonpl.
Chuquiraga microphylla Humb. & Bonpl.
Chuquiraga peruviana J.St.-Hil.
Chuquiraga pseudoruscifolia Muschl.
Joannesia insignis (Willd.) Pers.
Johannia insignis Willd.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
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.