Phyla nodiflora(L.) Greene

turkey tangle frogfruit

WFO wfo-0000270345 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–f

Phyla nodiflora, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. a Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-17 / obs. 198385526
Phyla nodiflora, photographed by Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）
fig. b Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201193326
Phyla nodiflora, photographed by Darren Oh
fig. c Darren Oh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 204188614
Phyla nodiflora, photographed by hi
fig. d hi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199527270
Phyla nodiflora, photographed by Marc Riera
fig. e Marc Riera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204204361
Phyla nodiflora, photographed by Juan Carlos A. Fierro
fig. f Juan Carlos A. Fierro, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 198254521

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.

Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 4,115 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 4,115 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 94 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.

  • Bertolonia crassifolia Raf.
  • Blairia nodiflora (L.) Gaertn.
  • Diototheca repens (Bertol.) Raf.
  • Lantana larranagae Moldenke
  • Lantana repens Sessé & Moc.
  • Lantana repens Larrañaga
  • Lantana sarmentosa Spreng. ex C.B.Clarke
  • Lippia aegyptiaca Carrière
  • Lippia caespitosa Rusby
  • Lippia canescens Kunth
  • Lippia canescens var. uncinuligera (Nees ex Walp.) Gay
  • Lippia cuneifolia var. incisa (Small) Blank.
  • Lippia duartei Moldenke
  • Lippia filiformis Schrad.
  • Lippia fruticosa (Mill.) K.Kenn. ex R.W.Sanders
  • Lippia incisa (Small) Tidestr.
  • Lippia incisa (Small) E.D.Schulz
  • Lippia litoralis Phil.
  • Lippia nodiflora (L.) Michx.
  • Lippia nodiflora Cham.
  • Lippia nodiflora f. brevipes Kuntze
  • Lippia nodiflora f. pseudosarmentosa A.Reyn.
  • Lippia nodiflora f. repens (Bertol.) Knoche
  • Lippia nodiflora f. sericea Kuntze

and 70 more.

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.