Plate 1 figs. a–h
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Flowering n = 543 observations
Peak flowering in Jul, from 543 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 12 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.
- Franca grandifolia (Cham. & Schltdl.) Greene
- Frankenia berteroana Gay
- Frankenia campestris (A.Gray) Tidestr.
- Frankenia grandiflora var. micrantha Gay ex W.L.Bray
- Frankenia grandifolia Cham. & Schltdl.
- Frankenia grandifolia subsp. campestris (A.Gray) A.E.Murray
- Frankenia grandifolia var. campestris A.Gray
- Frankenia latifolia C.Presl
- Frankenia micrantha Gay
- Frankenia micrantha subsp. berteroana (Gay) W.Bray
- Frankenia salina var. micrantha (Gay) Gunckel
- Ocimum salinum Molina
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
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