Commelina communisL.

Asiatic dayflower

WFO wfo-0000358362 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g

Commelina communis, photographed by askalotl
fig. a askalotl, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-09 / obs. 204784549
Commelina communis, photographed by Rebecca Gimenez Husted
fig. b Rebecca Gimenez Husted, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202196603
Commelina communis, photographed by Dilrukshan Priyantha Wijesinghe
fig. c Dilrukshan Priyantha Wijesinghe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163338716
Commelina communis, photographed by Raven Dandridge
fig. d Raven Dandridge, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162996662
Commelina communis, photographed by WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁
fig. e WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163071816
Commelina communis, photographed by Matthew Gerke
fig. f Matthew Gerke, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162273004
Commelina communis, photographed by Lee Ann Ratledge
fig. g Lee Ann Ratledge, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162695037

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 8,801 observations

Peak flowering in Sep, from 8,801 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

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.

  • Commelina barbata Bojer
  • Commelina communis f. alba Ti Chen
  • Commelina communis f. albiflora Makino
  • Commelina communis f. aureostriata MacKeever
  • Commelina communis f. caeruleopurpurascens Makino
  • Commelina communis f. ciliata (Masam.) Murata
  • Commelina communis subsp. exserta Pennell
  • Commelina communis var. angustifolia Nakai
  • Commelina communis var. ciliata Masam.
  • Commelina communis var. exserta (Pennell) F.G.Bernard
  • Commelina coreana H.Lév.
  • Commelina debilis Ledeb.
  • Commelina diabolica Koidz.
  • Commelina ludens Miq.
  • Commelina minor Y.N.Lee & Y.C.Oh
  • Commelina nipponica Koidz.
  • Commelina polygama Roth
  • Commelina vulgaris Redouté
  • Commelina willdenowii Kunth
  • Disecocarpus polygamus (Roth) Hassk.

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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.