Plate 1 figs. a–h
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Flowering n = 5,350 observations
Peak flowering in Mar, from 5,350 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 16 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.
- Covillea glutinosa (Engelm.) Rydb.
- Covillea tridentata (DC.) Vail
- Guaiacum mexicanum Baill.
- Larrea divaricata subsp. tridentata (DC.) Felger
- Larrea divaricata var. arenaria (L.D.Benson) Felger
- Larrea glutinosa Engelm.
- Larrea mexicana Moric.
- Larrea tridentata subsp. glutinosa (Engelm.) A.E.Murray
- Larrea tridentata var. arenaria L.D.Benson
- Larrea tridentata var. glutinosa (Engelm.) Jeps.
- Larrea tridentata var. tridentata
- Neoschroetera glutinosa (Engelm.) Briq.
- Neoschroetera tridentata (DC.) Briq.
- Schroeterella glutinosa (Engelm.) Briq.
- Schroeterella tridentata (DC.) Briq.
- Zygophyllum tridentatum DC.
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.
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