Herissantia crispa(L.) Brizicky

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WFO wfo-0000720286 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Herissantia crispa, photographed by velodrome
fig. a velodrome, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-03-05 / obs. 182673294
Herissantia crispa, photographed by 葉子
fig. b 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 184801068
Herissantia crispa, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. c Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174085939
Herissantia crispa, photographed by Tom Field
fig. d Tom Field, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169050455
Herissantia crispa, photographed by Brian Finzel
fig. e Brian Finzel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 173188402
Herissantia crispa, photographed by Rachel Stringham
fig. f Rachel Stringham, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160173416
Herissantia crispa, photographed by Andrew Tree
fig. g Andrew Tree, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158426569
Herissantia crispa, photographed by Kenzie Anderson-Bell
fig. h Kenzie Anderson-Bell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 154573566

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Native range 42 botanical countries

Regions where Herissantia crispa is native: Arizona, California, Florida, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, New Mexico, Texas, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Galápagos, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is. ArizonaCaliforniaFloridaMexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestNew MexicoTexasArgentina NortheastArgentina NorthwestBelizeBoliviaBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEl SalvadorGuatemalaGuyanaHaitiHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPanamáParaguayPeruPuerto RicoTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela BahamasGalápagosLeeward Is.Netherlands AntillesTurks-Caicos Is.Venezuelan AntillesWindward Is.
Native distribution of Herissantia crispa, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina Northwest AGW
Bahamas BAH
Belize BLZ
Bolivia BOL
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
El Salvador ELS
Galápagos GAL
Guatemala GUA
Guyana GUY
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Netherlands Antilles NLA
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER
Puerto Rico PUE
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Turks-Caicos Is. TCI
Venezuela VEN
Venezuelan Antilles VNA
Windward Is. WIN
Arizona ARI NORTHERN AMERICA
California CAL
Florida FLA
Mexico Central MXC
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS
New Mexico NWM
Texas TEX

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 241 in flower of 296 examined

Peak flowering in Aug. Each bar is the share of Herissantia crispa 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. 241 of 296 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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 1,627 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 2.3 °C 11.3 °C 22.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 27.7 °C 33.2 °C 38.4 °C
Annual rainfall 244 mm 587 mm 1,386 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 3 mm 24 mm 153 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 1,627 research-grade observations of Herissantia crispa 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. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 25 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.

  • Abutilon crispum (L.) Medik.
  • Abutilon crispum var. imberbe (DC.) Griseb.
  • Abutilon crispum var. svensonii J.F.Macbr.
  • Abutilon imberbe (DC.) G.Don
  • Abutilon neurocarpum Miq.
  • Abutilon sessilifolium C.Presl
  • Abutilon trichodum A.Rich.
  • Bastardia crispa (L.) A.St.-Hil.
  • Beloere crispa Shuttlew. ex A.Gray
  • Bogenhardia crispa (L.) Kearney
  • Gayoides crispum (L.) Small
  • Gayoides imberbe (DC.) Small
  • Gayoides imberbis (DC.) Small
  • Herissantia trichoda (A.Rich.) Fryxell
  • Napaea crispa (L.) Moench
  • Pseudobastardia crispa (L.) Hassl.
  • Sida amplexicaulis Lam.
  • Sida crispa L.
  • Sida gracilis Salisb.
  • Sida imberbis DC.
  • Sida lasiostega Link
  • Sida retrofracta DC.
  • Sida sessilifolium (C.Presl) D.Dietr.
  • Sida sessilis Vell.

and 1 more.

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.