Scoparia montevidensis(Spreng.) R.E.Fr.

broomwort

WFO wfo-0001139154 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Scoparia montevidensis, photographed by Eduardo Luis Beltrocco
fig. a Eduardo Luis Beltrocco, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-03-26 / obs. 184741117
Scoparia montevidensis, photographed by Tomás Carranza Perales
fig. b Tomás Carranza Perales, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180425766
Scoparia montevidensis, photographed by Jose Luis Navarro
fig. c Jose Luis Navarro, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 146922489
Scoparia montevidensis, photographed by Eduardo Luis Beltrocco
fig. d Eduardo Luis Beltrocco, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63318478
Scoparia montevidensis, photographed by demianlescano
fig. e demianlescano, CC0 1.0 / obs. 64552267
Scoparia montevidensis, photographed by Morten Ross
fig. f Morten Ross, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193936834
Scoparia montevidensis, photographed by Hugo Hulsberg
fig. g Hugo Hulsberg, CC0 1.0 / obs. 167020389
Scoparia montevidensis, photographed by Étienne Lacroix-Carignan
fig. h Étienne Lacroix-Carignan, CC0 1.0 / obs. 31501007

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Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Scoparia montevidensis is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southwest, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Aruba, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil South, Brazil West-Central, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico SouthwestArgentina NortheastArgentina NorthwestBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil SouthBrazil West-CentralEl SalvadorGuatemalaHondurasNicaraguaParaguayUruguayVenezuela ArubaNetherlands Antilles
Native distribution of Scoparia montevidensis, 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
Argentina Northwest AGW
Aruba ARU
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil South BZS
Brazil West-Central BZC
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Netherlands Antilles NLA
Nicaragua NIC
Paraguay PAR
Uruguay URU
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
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 58 in flower of 58 examined

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Scoparia montevidensis 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. 58 of 58 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 6 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 28 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.

  • Capraria annua (Cham. & Schltdl.) Kuntze
  • Capraria montevidensis (Spreng.) Kuntze
  • Capraria montevidensis var. intermedia Kuntze
  • Capraria montevidensis var. normalis Kuntze
  • Capraria pinnatifida Kuntze
  • Microcarpaea montevidensis Spreng.
  • Scoparia annua Schltdl. & Cham.
  • Scoparia annua var. glandulifera R.E.Fr.
  • Scoparia brasiliensis Chodat
  • Scoparia excelsa R.E.Fr.
  • Scoparia flava Cham. & Schltdl.
  • Scoparia flava var. glandulifera Fritsch
  • Scoparia glandulifera (Fritsch) Descole & Borsini
  • Scoparia grisebachii Fritsch
  • Scoparia macrantha R.E.Fr.
  • Scoparia millefoliata Fritsch
  • Scoparia millefoliolata f. decumbens R.E.Fr.
  • Scoparia montevidensis f. integrifolia Arechav.
  • Scoparia montevidensis var. decumbens Chodat
  • Scoparia montevidensis var. flava Chodat
  • Scoparia montevidensis var. glandulifera (Fritsch) R.E.Fr.
  • Scoparia montevidensis var. grisebachii (Fritsch) Chodat
  • Scoparia montevidensis var. intermedia (Kuntze) Chodat
  • Scoparia montevidensis var. macrantha Chodat

and 4 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.
  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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