Mimosa pudicaL.

Sensitive Plant

WFO wfo-0000165372 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Mimosa pudica, photographed by Dominik Maximilián Ramík
fig. a Dominik Maximilián Ramík, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-31 / obs. 203721976
Mimosa pudica, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. b Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 200411605
Mimosa pudica, photographed by Tyler Bishop
fig. c Tyler Bishop, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198218420
Mimosa pudica, photographed by Don Loarie
fig. d Don Loarie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203245262
Mimosa pudica, photographed by Vis M
fig. e Vis M, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 204865577
Mimosa pudica, photographed by Kevin Faccenda
fig. f Kevin Faccenda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203988522
Mimosa pudica, photographed by Sarka Masova
fig. g Sarka Masova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194957999
Mimosa pudica, photographed by Haneesh K M
fig. h Haneesh K M, CC0 1.0 / obs. 195978951

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Flowering n = 1,941 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 1,941 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 15 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.

  • Eburnax pudica (L.) Raf.
  • Mimosa andreana Britton & Rose
  • Mimosa argentea W.Bull
  • Mimosa endymionis Mart.
  • Mimosa hirsuta Moc. & Sessé ex G.Don
  • Mimosa hispidula Kunth
  • Mimosa irritabilis Dum.Cours.
  • Mimosa irritabilis C.Presl
  • Mimosa pudibunda Willd.
  • Mimosa pudica f. glabrior Benth.
  • Mimosa pudica var. glabrata DC.
  • Mimosa striato-stipula Steud.
  • Mimosa tetrandra Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.
  • Mimosa unijuga Duchass. & Walp.
  • Sensitiva pudica Raf.

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.