Jasminum polyanthum (pink jasmine)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Jasminum polyanthum, photographed by Tony Rebelo — fig. a Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-05-23 / obs. 204665416

Jasminum polyanthum, photographed by linkie — fig. b linkie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167225682

Jasminum polyanthum, photographed by Sue Carnahan — fig. g Sue Carnahan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61490872

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Native distribution of Jasminum polyanthum, 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
China South-Central	CHC	ASIA-TEMPERATE
Myanmar	MYA	ASIA-TROPICAL

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 126 in flower of 156 examined

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33%

Proportion of examined Jasminum polyanthum in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	3	6	50%	19% to 81%
Feb	3	5	60%	23% to 88%
Mar	6	9	67%	35% to 88%
Apr	4	5	80%	38% to 96%
May	4	6	67%	30% to 90%
Jun	4	9	44%	19% to 73%
Jul	7	9	78%	45% to 94%
Aug	22	25	88%	70% to 96%
Sep	29	32	91%	76% to 97%
Oct	33	35	94%	81% to 98%
Nov	9	9	100%	70% to 100%
Dec	2	6	33%	10% to 70%

Peak flowering in Nov. Each bar is the share of Jasminum polyanthum 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. 126 of 156 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 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.

Jasminum blinii H.Lév.
Jasminum delafieldii H.Lév.
Jasminum excellens King & Prain

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.
USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol JAPO2. public domain. 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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