Lagerstroemia indicaL.

Crape-myrtle

WFO wfo-0000366809 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Lagerstroemia indica, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. a Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / 2021-07-14 / obs. 143538298
Lagerstroemia indica, photographed by Sabarni Sarker
fig. b Sabarni Sarker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 138996070
Lagerstroemia indica, photographed by AnnLazaro
fig. c AnnLazaro, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 91620771
Lagerstroemia indica, photographed by Greg III Espera
fig. d Greg III Espera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 81337806
Lagerstroemia indica, photographed by Kim, Hyun-tae
fig. e Kim, Hyun-tae, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 49998317
Lagerstroemia indica, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. f Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 56091049
Lagerstroemia indica, photographed by Kim, Hyun-tae
fig. g Kim, Hyun-tae, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 49860549
Lagerstroemia indica, photographed by Kim, Hyun-tae
fig. h Kim, Hyun-tae, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 49881439

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Flowering n = 2,021 observations

Peak flowering in Aug, from 2,021 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 10 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.

  • Lagerstroemia chinensis L.
  • Lagerstroemia elegans Wall. ex Paxton
  • Lagerstroemia indica f. alba (G.Nicholson) Rehder
  • Lagerstroemia indica var. alba Ram.Goyena
  • Lagerstroemia indica var. alba Hovey
  • Lagerstroemia indica var. grafii S.Yadav
  • Lagerstroemia minor Retz.
  • Lagerstroemia pulchra Salisb.
  • Murtughas indica (L.) Kuntze
  • Velaga globosa Gaertn.

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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.