Gomphrena celosioides (batchelor's button)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Gomphrena celosioides, photographed by Bert Kimura — fig. a Bert Kimura, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-29 / obs. 202366369

Gomphrena celosioides, photographed by Thomas Mesaglio — fig. b Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201185551

Gomphrena celosioides, photographed by Caroline Voget — fig. c Caroline Voget, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200242087

Gomphrena celosioides, photographed by Florencia Grattarola — fig. d Florencia Grattarola, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197624752

Gomphrena celosioides, photographed by Pieter Huybrechts — fig. e Pieter Huybrechts, CC0 1.0 / obs. 191549147

Gomphrena celosioides, photographed by Dave Richardson — fig. f Dave Richardson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190018603

Gomphrena celosioides, photographed by Greg Tasney — fig. g Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 184771740

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Native range 11 botanical countries

Native distribution of Gomphrena celosioides, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
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
Ecuador	ECU
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 344 in flower of 357 examined

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Proportion of examined Gomphrena celosioides in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	41	44	93%	82% to 98%
Feb	28	29	97%	83% to 99%
Mar	34	34	100%	90% to 100%
Apr	54	55	98%	90% to 100%
May	23	24	96%	80% to 99%
Jun	29	31	94%	79% to 98%
Jul	16	16	100%	81% to 100%
Aug	17	18	94%	74% to 99%
Sep	17	18	94%	74% to 99%
Oct	25	27	93%	77% to 98%
Nov	31	32	97%	84% to 99%
Dec	29	29	100%	88% to 100%

Peak flowering in Mar. Each bar is the share of Gomphrena celosioides 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. 344 of 357 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 22 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.

Gomphrena alba Peter
Gomphrena celosioides f. aureiflora (Chodat) Pedersen
Gomphrena celosioides f. grandifolia Stuchlík
Gomphrena celosioides f. parvifolia Stuchlík
Gomphrena celosioides f. suberecta Stuchlík
Gomphrena celosioides f. villosa Suess.
Gomphrena celosioides var. aureiflora Stuchlík
Gomphrena decumbens f. albiflora Chodat & Hassl.
Gomphrena decumbens f. aureiflora Chodat & Hassl.
Gomphrena decumbens f. roseiflora Chodat
Gomphrena decumbens var. albiflora Stuchlík
Gomphrena decumbens var. aureiflora Stuchlík
Gomphrena desertorum var. fallax (Seub. ex Mart.) E.Holzh.
Gomphrena desertorum var. hygrophila (Mart.) Stuchlík
Gomphrena fallax Seub.
Gomphrena globosa subsp. africana Stuchlík
Gomphrena hygrophila Mart.
Gomphrena hygrophila f. luteiflora Herzog
Gomphrena hygrophila var. subecristata Herzog
Gomphrena lutea Rusby
Gomphrena mariae S.Moore
Gomphrena perennis f. ramosissima Stuchlík

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.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
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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