Mimosa rupertianaB.L.Turner

eastern sensitive plant

WFO wfo-0000377250 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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.

Mimosa rupertiana, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. a Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-20 / obs. 130689647
Mimosa rupertiana, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. b Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 130689664
Mimosa rupertiana, photographed by Sam Kieschnick
fig. c Sam Kieschnick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 83241085
Mimosa rupertiana, photographed by Sam Kieschnick
fig. d Sam Kieschnick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 83241176
Mimosa rupertiana, photographed by Sam Kieschnick
fig. e Sam Kieschnick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 83241140

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Mimosa rupertiana is native: Colorado, Mexico Northeast, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas ColoradoMexico NortheastNew MexicoOklahomaTexas
Native distribution of Mimosa rupertiana, 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
Colorado COL NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Northeast MXE
New Mexico NWM
Oklahoma OKL
Texas TEX

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 5 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.

  • Leptoglottis occidentalis (Wooton & Standl.) Britton & Rose
  • Mimosa occidentalis (Wooton & Standl.) B.L.Turner
  • Mimosa quadrivalvis var. occidentalis (Wooton & Standl.) Barneby
  • Morongia occidentalis Wooton & Standl.
  • Schrankia occidentalis (Wooton & Standl.) Standl.

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. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol MIRU5. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.