Cuphea glutinosaCham. & Schltdl.

sticky waxweed

WFO wfo-0000630039 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Cuphea glutinosa, photographed by demianlescano
fig. a demianlescano, CC0 1.0 / 2022-04-09 / obs. 187346622
Cuphea glutinosa, photographed by Bahiano Ayala
fig. b Bahiano Ayala, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189083153
Cuphea glutinosa, photographed by Bahiano Ayala
fig. c Bahiano Ayala, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189080564
Cuphea glutinosa, photographed by Bahiano Ayala
fig. d Bahiano Ayala, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188740354
Cuphea glutinosa, photographed by Romi Galeota Lencina
fig. e Romi Galeota Lencina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179272333
Cuphea glutinosa, photographed by Tomás Carranza Perales
fig. f Tomás Carranza Perales, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177702421
Cuphea glutinosa, photographed by Rafael Tosi
fig. g Rafael Tosi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177343474
Cuphea glutinosa, photographed by Matias Cabezas
fig. h Matias Cabezas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166205835

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Cuphea glutinosa is native: Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Paraguay, Uruguay Argentina NortheastArgentina NorthwestBoliviaBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastParaguayUruguay
Native distribution of Cuphea glutinosa, 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
Bolivia BOL
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
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.

Flowering 72 in flower of 72 examined

Peak flowering in Feb. Each bar is the share of Cuphea glutinosa 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. 72 of 72 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 5 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 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.

  • Cuphea hirsuta Gillies ex Hook. & Arn.
  • Cuphea thymoides Lorentz
  • Parsonsia glutinosa (Cham. & Schltdl.) A.Heller

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. 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.