Phyllanthopsis phyllanthoides(Nutt.) Voronts. & Petra Hoffm.

Missouri maidenbush

WFO wfo-0000836592 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Phyllanthopsis phyllanthoides, photographed by Brian Finzel
fig. a Brian Finzel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-04-23 / obs. 190224595
Phyllanthopsis phyllanthoides, photographed by Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）
fig. b Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 54842519
Phyllanthopsis phyllanthoides, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. c Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 45698435
Phyllanthopsis phyllanthoides, photographed by Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）
fig. d Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 34122452
Phyllanthopsis phyllanthoides, photographed by Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）
fig. e Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 23622173
Phyllanthopsis phyllanthoides, photographed by Brian Finzel
fig. f Brian Finzel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 343204783
Phyllanthopsis phyllanthoides, photographed by Nathan Aaron
fig. g Nathan Aaron, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201379695
Phyllanthopsis phyllanthoides, photographed by Matt Berger
fig. h Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 154060130

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Phyllanthopsis phyllanthoides is native: Alabama, Arkansas, Mexico Northeast, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas AlabamaArkansasMexico NortheastMissouriOklahomaTennesseeTexas
Native distribution of Phyllanthopsis phyllanthoides, 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
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Arkansas ARK
Mexico Northeast MXE
Missouri MSO
Oklahoma OKL
Tennessee TEN
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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 205 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -1.8 °C 3.3 °C 6.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 31.3 °C 32.4 °C 34.8 °C
Annual rainfall 888 mm 1,386 mm 1,451 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 179 mm 282 mm 299 mm

It is found where winters bring light frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 205 research-grade observations of Phyllanthopsis phyllanthoides that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 11 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.

  • Andrachne phyllanthoides (Nutt.) Müll.Arg.
  • Andrachne phyllanthoides var. reverchonii (J.M.Coult.) Blank.
  • Andrachne reverchonii J.M.Coult.
  • Andrachne roemeriana (Scheele) Müll.Arg.
  • Lepidanthus phyllanthoides Nutt.
  • Leptopus phyllanthoides (Nutt.) G.L.Webster
  • Maschalanthus obovatus Nutt.
  • Phyllanthus roemerianus Scheele
  • Savia phyllanthoides (Nutt.) Pax & K.Hoffm.
  • Savia phyllanthoides var. reverchonii (J.M.Coult.) Pax & K.Hoffm.
  • Savia phyllanthoides var. roemeriana (Scheele) Pax & K.Hoffm.

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. 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.