Collinsonia punctataElliott

Blue Ridge horsebalm

WFO wfo-0000917020 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 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.

Collinsonia punctata, photographed by Will McFarland
fig. a Will McFarland, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-09-14 / obs. 95362802
Collinsonia punctata, photographed by John Kees
fig. b John Kees, CC0 1.0 / obs. 94168692
Collinsonia punctata, photographed by John Kees
fig. c John Kees, CC0 1.0 / obs. 50995772
Collinsonia punctata, photographed by Will McFarland
fig. d Will McFarland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 27139894
Collinsonia punctata, photographed by Will McFarland
fig. e Will McFarland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 27020560
Collinsonia punctata, photographed by Will McFarland
fig. f Will McFarland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 95362827
Collinsonia punctata, photographed by John Kees
fig. g John Kees, CC0 1.0 / obs. 94168662
Collinsonia punctata, photographed by John Kees
fig. h John Kees, CC0 1.0 / obs. 50995786

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
03030390
Filed as
Collinsonia punctata Elliott
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
R. F. C. Naczi 2006-11-13
Origin
US
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Collinsonia punctata is native: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina AlabamaFloridaGeorgiaLouisianaMississippiSouth Carolina
Native distribution of Collinsonia punctata, 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
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Florida FLA
Georgia GEO
Louisiana LOU
Mississippi MSI
South Carolina SCA

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 3 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.

  • Collinsonia canadensis var. punctata (Elliott) A.Gray
  • Collinsonia serotina Walter
  • Diallosteira punctata Raf. ex B.D.Jacks.

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. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol COSE11. public domain. 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.