Rivina humilisL.

pigeonberry

WFO wfo-0000404539 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Rivina humilis, photographed by 雲一百香果
fig. a 雲一百香果, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-05 / obs. 203431622
Rivina humilis, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. b Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 198591660
Rivina humilis, photographed by chen ying-hsiao
fig. c chen ying-hsiao, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 202913145
Rivina humilis, photographed by Don Loarie
fig. d Don Loarie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203739084
Rivina humilis, photographed by 五色鳥
fig. e 五色鳥, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202390395
Rivina humilis, photographed by saltyhiker
fig. f saltyhiker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205236339
Rivina humilis, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. g Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 203461665
Rivina humilis, photographed by Center for Urban Ecology
fig. h Center for Urban Ecology, CC0 1.0 / obs. 198696508

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Flowering n = 2,094 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 2,094 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 41 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.

  • Piercea acuminata Raf.
  • Piercea glabra Mill.
  • Piercea obliquata Raf.
  • Piercea tomentosa Mill.
  • Rivina aurantiaca Warsz. ex Schenk
  • Rivina bengalensis S.C.Srivast. & T.K.Paul
  • Rivina brasiliensis Nocca
  • Rivina canescens G.Don ex Steud.
  • Rivina glabrata Kunth
  • Rivina gracilis Salisb.
  • Rivina herbacea C.Huber
  • Rivina humilis var. glabra L.
  • Rivina humilis var. humilis
  • Rivina humilis var. laevis (L.) Millsp.
  • Rivina humilis var. orientalis (Moq.) H.Walter
  • Rivina humilis var. plumbaginifolia Moq.
  • Rivina humilis var. puberula (Kunth) Moq.
  • Rivina laevis L.
  • Rivina laevis var. acuminata (Kunth) Moq.
  • Rivina laevis var. pubescens Griseb.
  • Rivina lanceolata Willd.
  • Rivina mexicana Moc. & Sessé ex Moq.
  • Rivina obliquata Raf.
  • Rivina orientalis Moq.

and 17 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.