Polypremum procumbensL.

juniper leaf

WFO wfo-0000469120 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Polypremum procumbens, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. a Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-09 / obs. 205049064
Polypremum procumbens, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. b Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205048741
Polypremum procumbens, photographed by saltyhiker
fig. c saltyhiker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202669981
Polypremum procumbens, photographed by Megan Kossa
fig. d Megan Kossa, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202004838
Polypremum procumbens, photographed by Northcut
fig. e Northcut, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200162149
Polypremum procumbens, photographed by ALLIE BORGMEYER
fig. f ALLIE BORGMEYER, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196612513
Polypremum procumbens, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. g Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192582170
Polypremum procumbens, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. h Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189060717

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Native range 36 botanical countries

Regions where Polypremum procumbens is native: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Venezuela AlabamaArkansasFloridaGeorgiaIllinoisKentuckyLouisianaMarylandMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestMississippiMissouriNorth CarolinaOklahomaSouth CarolinaTennesseeTexasVirginiaBelizeColombiaCosta RicaCubaEl SalvadorGuatemalaHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPuerto RicoSurinameVenezuela DelawareArubaBahamas
Native distribution of Polypremum procumbens, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Arkansas ARK
Delaware DEL
Florida FLA
Georgia GEO
Illinois ILL
Kentucky KTY
Louisiana LOU
Maryland MRY
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS
Mississippi MSI
Missouri MSO
North Carolina NCA
Oklahoma OKL
South Carolina SCA
Tennessee TEN
Texas TEX
Virginia VRG
Aruba ARU SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bahamas BAH
Belize BLZ
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Nicaragua NIC
Puerto Rico PUE
Suriname SUR
Venezuela VEN

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.

Flowering 502 in flower of 609 examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Polypremum procumbens observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 502 of 609 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 6 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.

  • Hasslerella rojasii Chodat
  • Polypremum laxum Raf.
  • Polypremum linnaei Michx.
  • Polypremum schlechtendahlii Walp.
  • Polypremum squarrosum Raf.
  • Veronica marilandica L.

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.

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