Funastrum elegans(Decne.) Schltr.

WFO wfo-0000693510 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Funastrum elegans, photographed by Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez
fig. a Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-04-30 / obs. 195423751
Funastrum elegans, photographed by Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez
fig. b Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 186632249
Funastrum elegans, photographed by Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez
fig. c Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 186650917
Funastrum elegans, photographed by Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez
fig. d Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 153308142
Funastrum elegans, photographed by Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez
fig. e Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 148618494
Funastrum elegans, photographed by Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez
fig. f Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 148376963
Funastrum elegans, photographed by Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez
fig. g Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 148377026
Funastrum elegans, photographed by José Belem Hernández Díaz
fig. h José Belem Hernández Díaz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 144420388

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Funastrum elegans is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico Southwest
Native distribution of Funastrum elegans, 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

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 348 in flower of 477 examined

Peak flowering in Sep. Each bar is the share of Funastrum elegans 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. 348 of 477 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 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 14 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.

  • Apocynum angustifolium Sessé & Moc.
  • Apocynum imbricatum Sessé & Moc.
  • Apocynum mexicanum Sessé & Moc.
  • Funastrum bicolor (Decne.) J.F.Macbr.
  • Funastrum luridum (Kunze) Schltr.
  • Gonolobus eriopetalus Moric. ex Decne.
  • Philibertella elegans (Decne.) Vail
  • Philibertia bicolor (Decne.) A.Gray
  • Philibertia elegans (Decne.) A.Gray
  • Philibertia elegans (Decne.) Hemsl.
  • Philibertia lurida (Kunze) Hemsl.
  • Sarcostemma bicolor Decne.
  • Sarcostemma elegans Decne.
  • Sarcostemma luridum Kunze

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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