Junellia spathulata

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Junellia spathulata, photographed by Nicolás Lavandero — fig. b Nicolás Lavandero, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179211956

Junellia spathulata, photographed by Romi Galeota Lencina — fig. c Romi Galeota Lencina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 120511393

Junellia spathulata, photographed by Nicolas Olejnik — fig. d Nicolas Olejnik, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 117699143

Junellia spathulata, photographed by Guillermo Debandi — fig. h Guillermo Debandi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126654898

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Native distribution of Junellia spathulata, 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 Northwest	AGW	SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina South	AGS
Chile Central	CLC

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 40 in flower of 40 examined

100%

Proportion of examined Junellia spathulata in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	11	11	100%	74% to 100%
Feb	1	1	too few examined
Mar	5	5	100%	57% to 100%
Apr	0	0	too few examined
May	0	0	too few examined
Jun	0	0	too few examined
Jul	0	0	too few examined
Aug	0	0	too few examined
Sep	0	0	too few examined
Oct	0	0	too few examined
Nov	5	5	100%	57% to 100%
Dec	18	18	100%	82% to 100%

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Junellia spathulata 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. 40 of 40 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 8 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 14 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.

Diostea filifolia Miers
Diostea stenophylla Miers
Junellia glauca (Gillies & Hook.) Moldenke
Junellia glauca var. cisandina (Niederl.) Moldenke
Junellia spathulata var. grandiflora (Schauer) Botta
Lantana clarazii Ball
Verbena glauca Gillies & Hook.
Verbena glauca var. cisandina Niederl.
Verbena ochreata Briq.
Verbena spathulata Gillies & Hook.
Verbena spathulata Gillies & Hook. ex Hook.
Verbena spathulata var. grandiflora Schauer
Verbena spathulata var. parviflora Schauer
Verbena spathulata var. pseudojuncea Reiche

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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