Iresine diffusaHumb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.

Juba's bush

WFO wfo-0000732153 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Iresine diffusa, photographed by Andrea Gantzer
fig. a Andrea Gantzer, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-30 / obs. 197118467
Iresine diffusa, photographed by Eduardo Luis Beltrocco
fig. b Eduardo Luis Beltrocco, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195611939
Iresine diffusa, photographed by Eduardo Luis Beltrocco
fig. c Eduardo Luis Beltrocco, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193345903
Iresine diffusa, photographed by Attila Oláh
fig. d Attila Oláh, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188877811
Iresine diffusa, photographed by Natalia Millans
fig. e Natalia Millans, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188414662
Iresine diffusa, photographed by Michelle Sevcovas
fig. f Michelle Sevcovas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178863220
Iresine diffusa, photographed by Hugo Hulsberg
fig. g Hugo Hulsberg, CC0 1.0 / obs. 175565998
Iresine diffusa, photographed by demianlescano
fig. h demianlescano, CC0 1.0 / obs. 173343274

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Native range 40 botanical countries

Regions where Iresine diffusa is native: Florida, Louisiana, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Texas, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela, Windward Is. FloridaLouisianaMexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestTexasArgentina NortheastArgentina NorthwestBelizeBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEcuadorEl SalvadorGuatemalaGuyanaHaitiHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPanamáParaguayPeruPuerto RicoSurinameUruguayVenezuela Cayman Is.Leeward Is.Windward Is.
Native distribution of Iresine diffusa, 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
Belize BLZ
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Cayman Is. CAY
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Guyana GUY
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER
Puerto Rico PUE
Suriname SUR
Uruguay URU
Venezuela VEN
Windward Is. WIN
Florida FLA NORTHERN AMERICA
Louisiana LOU
Mexico Central MXC
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS
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 73 in flower of 82 examined

Peak flowering in Feb. Each bar is the share of Iresine diffusa 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. 73 of 82 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 4 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 48 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.

  • Achyranthes herbstii (Hook.) Hovey
  • Achyranthes verschaffeltii Lem.
  • Alternanthera canescens (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Moq.
  • Celosia paniculata L.
  • Crucita americana Lam.
  • Crucita hispanica L.
  • Crucita hispanicoamericana Schult.
  • Cruzeta americana Moq.
  • Cruzeta celosioides (L.) M.Gómez
  • Cruzeta hispanica Loefl.
  • Gonufas paniculata (L.) Raf.
  • Iresine acicularis Standl.
  • Iresine acuminata Moq.
  • Iresine canescens Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.
  • Iresine celosia L.
  • Iresine celosia subsp. tomentosa de la Luz
  • Iresine celosia var. diffusa (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Suess.
  • Iresine celosia var. nicotianoides Suess.
  • Iresine celosioides L.
  • Iresine celosioides var. eriophylla Benth.
  • Iresine celosioides var. macrophylla Griseb.
  • Iresine celosioides var. nicotianoides Suess.
  • Iresine celosioides var. polymorpha Mart.
  • Iresine celosioides var. pubescens Moq.

and 24 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.