Sauvagesia erectaL.

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WFO wfo-0000505642 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Sauvagesia erecta, photographed by Trevor Van Loon
fig. a Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-01-22 / obs. 199528284
Sauvagesia erecta, photographed by Guillaume Delaitre
fig. b Guillaume Delaitre, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 144802777
Sauvagesia erecta, photographed by Tsssss
fig. c Tsssss, CC0 1.0 / obs. 93162844
Sauvagesia erecta, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. d Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60917530
Sauvagesia erecta, photographed by Serenella Linares
fig. e Serenella Linares, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 49840124
Sauvagesia erecta, photographed by Annika Lindqvist
fig. f Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 14108943
Sauvagesia erecta, photographed by Leticia Jiménez Hernández
fig. g Leticia Jiménez Hernández, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 12786011
Sauvagesia erecta, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. h Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 3844651

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Native range 60 botanical countries

Regions where Sauvagesia erecta is native: Angola, Benin, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, DR Congo, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Argentina Northeast, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is. AngolaBeninBurkinaBurundiCameroonCentral African RepublicChadDR CongoGabonGambiaGhanaGuineaGuinea-BissauIvory CoastKenyaLiberiaMadagascarMaliMozambiqueNigeriaSenegalSierra LeoneSudan-South SudanTanzaniaTogoUgandaZambiaMexico CentralMexico GulfMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestArgentina NortheastBelizeBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEcuadorFrench GuianaGuatemalaGuyanaHaitiHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPanamáParaguayPuerto RicoSurinameTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela Leeward Is.Venezuelan AntillesWindward Is.
Native distribution of Sauvagesia erecta, 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
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Belize BLZ
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Ecuador ECU
French Guiana FRG
Guatemala GUA
Guyana GUY
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Paraguay PAR
Puerto Rico PUE
Suriname SUR
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN
Venezuelan Antilles VNA
Windward Is. WIN
Angola ANG AFRICA
Benin BEN
Burkina BKN
Burundi BUR
Cameroon CMN
Central African Republic CAF
Chad CHA
DR Congo ZAI
Gabon GAB
Gambia GAM
Ghana GHA
Guinea GUI
Guinea-Bissau GNB
Ivory Coast IVO
Kenya KEN
Liberia LBR
Madagascar MDG
Mali MLI
Mozambique MOZ
Nigeria NGA
Senegal SEN
Sierra Leone SIE
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
Togo TOG
Uganda UGA
Zambia ZAM
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

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 82 in flower of 83 examined

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Sauvagesia erecta 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. 82 of 83 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 3 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. 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 16 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.

  • Sauvagesia adima Aubl.
  • Sauvagesia brownei Planch.
  • Sauvagesia erecta subsp. erecta
  • Sauvagesia erecta var. erecta
  • Sauvagesia erecta var. parvifolia Hoehne
  • Sauvagesia erecta var. sincorensis Ule
  • Sauvagesia erecta var. stricta Mart. & Zucc.
  • Sauvagesia floribunda A.Chev.
  • Sauvagesia geminiflora Ging.
  • Sauvagesia grandifolia Dwyer
  • Sauvagesia laxa Mart.
  • Sauvagesia microphylla Urb.
  • Sauvagesia nutans Pers.
  • Sauvagesia peruviana Roem. & Schult.
  • Sauvagesia salicifolia Ging.
  • Sauvagesia stenophylla Urb.

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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