Euphorbia pulcherrimaWilld. ex Klotzsch

Poinsettia

WFO wfo-0000964275 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Euphorbia pulcherrima, photographed by Maria Janeiro
fig. a Maria Janeiro, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-03-24 / obs. 184314201
Euphorbia pulcherrima, photographed by Светлана Царахова
fig. b Светлана Царахова, CC0 1.0 / obs. 180866044
Euphorbia pulcherrima, photographed by Seema Merchant
fig. c Seema Merchant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 125684099
Euphorbia pulcherrima, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. d Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 140854988
Euphorbia pulcherrima, photographed by S.MORE
fig. e S.MORE, CC0 1.0 / obs. 174601247
Euphorbia pulcherrima, photographed by S.MORE
fig. f S.MORE, CC0 1.0 / obs. 174733440
Euphorbia pulcherrima, photographed by chiuluan
fig. g chiuluan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179363534
Euphorbia pulcherrima, photographed by Sabarni Sarker
fig. h Sabarni Sarker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107640779

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Flowering n = 525 observations

Peak flowering in Dec, from 525 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.

  • Euphorbia coccinea Raf.
  • Euphorbia diversifolia Willd. ex Boiss.
  • Euphorbia erythrophylla Bertol.
  • Euphorbia fastuosa Sessé & Moc.
  • Euphorbia lutea Alamán ex Boiss.
  • Euphorbia poinsettiana Buist ex Giah.
  • Euphorbia poinsettiana Buist ex Graham
  • Euphorbia poinsettii Raf.
  • Euphorbia pulcherrima f. lutea Standl.
  • Pleuradena coccinea Raf.
  • Poinsettia ignescens Van Geert
  • Poinsettia mirabilis Van Geert
  • Poinsettia pulcherrima (Willd. ex Klotzsch) Graham
  • Poinsettia pulcherrima var. albida Maund
  • Poinsettia pulcherrima var. major H.J.Veitch
  • Poinsettia pulcherrima var. plena Hovey
  • Poinsettia pulcherrima var. plenissima H.J.Veitch
  • Poinsettia pulcherrima var. rosea-carminata Dombrain
  • Poinsettia pulcherrima var. roseocarminata W.Bull
  • Poinsettia variabilis Van Geert

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.