Cuphea aequipetalaCav.

WFO wfo-0000629789 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Cuphea aequipetala, photographed by José Belem Hernández Díaz
fig. a José Belem Hernández Díaz, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-08-04 / obs. 148673675
Cuphea aequipetala, photographed by Grete Pasch
fig. b Grete Pasch, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 101003728
Cuphea aequipetala, photographed by Juan Rafael Rodríguez Razgado
fig. c Juan Rafael Rodríguez Razgado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 97449882
Cuphea aequipetala, photographed by Leticia Jiménez Hernández
fig. d Leticia Jiménez Hernández, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 88618381
Cuphea aequipetala, photographed by Will Cornwell
fig. e Will Cornwell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 59148059
Cuphea aequipetala, photographed by Martín Sánchez Vilchis
fig. f Martín Sánchez Vilchis, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 52141470
Cuphea aequipetala, photographed by Leticia Jiménez Hernández
fig. g Leticia Jiménez Hernández, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 45765450
Cuphea aequipetala, photographed by José Belem Hernández Díaz
fig. h José Belem Hernández Díaz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 39937690

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Cuphea aequipetala is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Guatemala, Honduras Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestGuatemalaHonduras
Native distribution of Cuphea aequipetala, 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
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS
Guatemala GUA SOUTHERN AMERICA
Honduras HON

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 74 in flower of 74 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Cuphea aequipetala 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. 74 of 74 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 6 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 22 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.

  • Cuphea aequipetala var. epilosa Greenm.
  • Cuphea aequipetala var. hispida Koehne
  • Cuphea aequipetala var. laevicaulis Koehne
  • Cuphea apanxaloa DC.
  • Cuphea ascendens Moc. & Sessé ex DC.
  • Cuphea aspera Willd. ex Schltdl. & Cham.
  • Cuphea atrosanguinea Warsz. ex Koehne
  • Cuphea bracteata Lag.
  • Cuphea floribunda Lehm.
  • Cuphea floribunda Lehm.
  • Cuphea floribunda var. grandiflora Regel
  • Cuphea llavea Koehne
  • Cuphea ocymoides Decne.
  • Cuphea procumbens var. fruticosa Koehne
  • Cuphea scabrida Kunth
  • Cuphea violacea Regel
  • Cuphea virgata Cav.
  • Lythrum truxillense Steud.
  • Lythrum tuxtlense DC.
  • Lythrum tuxtlense Sessé & Moc.
  • Parsonsia aequipetala (Cav.) Standl.
  • Parsonsia virgata (Cav.) M.Gómez

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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