Lobelia nanaKunth

WFO wfo-0000815724 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Lobelia nana, photographed by aacocucci
fig. a aacocucci, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-01-29 / obs. 177936291
Lobelia nana, photographed by aacocucci
fig. b aacocucci, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 120446636
Lobelia nana, photographed by aacocucci
fig. c aacocucci, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29779749
Lobelia nana, photographed by aacocucci
fig. d aacocucci, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 11022337
Lobelia nana, photographed by Alfredo F. Fuentes Claros
fig. e Alfredo F. Fuentes Claros, CC0 1.0 / obs. 34632697
Lobelia nana, photographed by aacocucci
fig. f aacocucci, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 27471730
Lobelia nana, photographed by Carlos Martorell
fig. g Carlos Martorell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 1158392
Lobelia nana, photographed by aacocucci
fig. h aacocucci, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 120446653

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Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Lobelia nana is native: Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Peru Mexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestArgentina NortheastArgentina NorthwestBoliviaColombiaEcuadorGuatemalaPeru
Native distribution of Lobelia nana, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina Northwest AGW
Bolivia BOL
Colombia CLM
Ecuador ECU
Guatemala GUA
Peru PER
Mexico Gulf MXG NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

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.

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.

  • Dortmanna cymbalaria (Griseb.) Kuntze
  • Dortmanna nana (Kunth) Kuntze
  • Lobelia bellis E.Wimm.
  • Lobelia cymbalaria Griseb.
  • Lobelia cymbalarioides Zahlbr.
  • Lobelia nana var. cymbalarioides (Zahlbr.) E.Wimm.
  • Lobelia nana var. flagelliformis Wedd.
  • Lobelia nana var. nana
  • Pratia boliviensis A.DC.
  • Rapuntium nanum (Kunth) C.Presl

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. 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.