Gomphrena pulchella

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Gomphrena pulchella, photographed by Joaquin Valentinuzzi — fig. b Joaquin Valentinuzzi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191597476

Gomphrena pulchella, photographed by aacocucci — fig. c aacocucci, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175051749

Gomphrena pulchella, photographed by Gustavo Puente — fig. d Gustavo Puente, CC0 1.0 / obs. 171454591

Gomphrena pulchella, photographed by desertnaturalist — fig. f desertnaturalist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 59399885

Gomphrena pulchella, photographed by Leonel Roget — fig. g Leonel Roget, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 35668015

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Native distribution of Gomphrena pulchella, 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 Northeast	BZE
Brazil South	BZS
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 32 in flower of 32 examined

100%

Proportion of examined Gomphrena pulchella in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	4	4	too few examined
Feb	4	4	too few examined
Mar	5	5	100%	57% to 100%
Apr	4	4	too few examined
May	3	3	too few examined
Jun	1	1	too few examined
Jul	0	0	too few examined
Aug	1	1	too few examined
Sep	0	0	too few examined
Oct	0	0	too few examined
Nov	3	3	too few examined
Dec	7	7	100%	65% to 100%

Peak flowering in Mar. Each bar is the share of Gomphrena pulchella 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. 32 of 32 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 10 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. 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 18 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 bonariensis Gillies ex Moq.
Gomphrena perennis var. boliviana Stuchlik
Gomphrena perennis var. rosea Stuchlík
Gomphrena pulchella f. cylindrica Stuchlík
Gomphrena pulchella f. grandifolia Stuchlík
Gomphrena pulchella f. linearifolia Stuchlík
Gomphrena pulchella f. major Hassl.
Gomphrena pulchella f. pulchella
Gomphrena pulchella f. ramosissima Stuchlík
Gomphrena pulchella f. simplex Stuchlík
Gomphrena pulchella subsp. pulchella
Gomphrena pulchella var. albisericea E.Holzh.
Gomphrena pulchella var. bonariensis (Moq.) Pedersen
Gomphrena pulchella var. bonariensis Moq.
Gomphrena pulchella var. ecristata Chodat
Gomphrena pulchella var. rosea Stuchlík
Gomphrena rosea Griseb.
Xeraea pulchella Kuntze

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.
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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