Glinus radiatus(Ruiz & Pav.) Rohrb.

spreading sweetjuice

WFO wfo-0000703728 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Glinus radiatus, photographed by Sue Carnahan
fig. a Sue Carnahan, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-06-28 / obs. 139591874
Glinus radiatus, photographed by Sam Kieschnick
fig. b Sam Kieschnick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18008574
Glinus radiatus, photographed by Sue Carnahan
fig. c Sue Carnahan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 139591894
Glinus radiatus, photographed by Sam Kieschnick
fig. d Sam Kieschnick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18008584
Glinus radiatus, photographed by Sue Carnahan
fig. e Sue Carnahan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 139591936
Glinus radiatus, photographed by Sam Kieschnick
fig. f Sam Kieschnick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18008591
Glinus radiatus, photographed by Sue Carnahan
fig. g Sue Carnahan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 139591956
Glinus radiatus, photographed by Sam Kieschnick
fig. h Sam Kieschnick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18008606

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 35 botanical countries

Regions where Glinus radiatus is native: Arkansas, Louisiana, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Oklahoma, Texas, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Chile Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela ArkansasLouisianaMexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestOklahomaTexasArgentina NortheastArgentina NorthwestBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralChile CentralColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEcuadorFrench GuianaGuatemalaGuyanaHaitiHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaParaguayUruguayVenezuela
Native distribution of Glinus radiatus, 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 North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Chile Central CLC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Ecuador ECU
French Guiana FRG
Guatemala GUA
Guyana GUY
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Nicaragua NIC
Paraguay PAR
Uruguay URU
Venezuela VEN
Arkansas ARK NORTHERN AMERICA
Louisiana LOU
Mexican Pacific Is. MXI
Mexico Central MXC
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS
Oklahoma OKL
Texas TEX

Not drawn on the map: Mexican Pacific Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 36 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 1.3 °C 9.1 °C 20.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 26.9 °C 33.4 °C 37.3 °C
Annual rainfall 316 mm 637 mm 3,778 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 6 mm 30 mm 224 mm

It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 36 research-grade observations of Glinus radiatus that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

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.

  • Glinus glaber Larrañaga
  • Mollugo cambessedesii (Fenzl) J.M.Coult.
  • Mollugo radiata Ruiz & Pav.

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.