Loeselia mexicanaBrand

Mexican False Calico

WFO wfo-0001099687 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Loeselia mexicana, photographed by Zazil Dellamary
fig. a Zazil Dellamary, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-03-13 / obs. 183185679
Loeselia mexicana, photographed by José Belem Hernández Díaz
fig. b José Belem Hernández Díaz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 168749065
Loeselia mexicana, photographed by José Belem Hernández Díaz
fig. c José Belem Hernández Díaz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170248656
Loeselia mexicana, photographed by Luis F. Ramírez
fig. d Luis F. Ramírez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 108769727
Loeselia mexicana, photographed by jessicavazquez
fig. e jessicavazquez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109439727
Loeselia mexicana, photographed by Martha Gonzalez Herrera
fig. f Martha Gonzalez Herrera, CC0 1.0 / obs. 160714823
Loeselia mexicana, photographed by Juan Carlos Fonseca Mata
fig. g Juan Carlos Fonseca Mata, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 100165264
Loeselia mexicana, photographed by Juan Carlos Fonseca Mata
fig. h Juan Carlos Fonseca Mata, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 103284259

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Flowering n = 2,370 observations

Peak flowering in Dec, from 2,370 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 7 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.

  • Cantua coccinea Poir.
  • Cantua hoitzia Willd.
  • Hoitzia coccinea Cav.
  • Hoitzia mexicana Lam.
  • Loeselia coccinea G.Don
  • Loeselia mexicana var. lutea Brand
  • Phlox spinosilla Sessé & Moc.

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.