Scutellaria potosinaBrandegee

Mexican skullcap

WFO wfo-0000308324 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Scutellaria potosina, photographed by Leticia Jiménez Hernández
fig. a Leticia Jiménez Hernández, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-07-20 / obs. 146532598
Scutellaria potosina, photographed by Leticia Jiménez Hernández
fig. b Leticia Jiménez Hernández, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 144814298
Scutellaria potosina, photographed by Alejandro Gómez Maya
fig. c Alejandro Gómez Maya, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 122648693
Scutellaria potosina, photographed by Leticia Jiménez Hernández
fig. d Leticia Jiménez Hernández, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 94461148
Scutellaria potosina, photographed by Leticia Jiménez Hernández
fig. e Leticia Jiménez Hernández, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 85470892
Scutellaria potosina, photographed by Leticia Jiménez Hernández
fig. f Leticia Jiménez Hernández, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 45765999
Scutellaria potosina, photographed by Leticia Jiménez Hernández
fig. g Leticia Jiménez Hernández, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 45765864
Scutellaria potosina, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. h Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 31391782

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Scutellaria potosina is native: Arizona, Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, New Mexico, Texas ArizonaMexico CentralMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestNew MexicoTexas
Native distribution of Scutellaria potosina, 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
Arizona ARI NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Central MXC
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
New Mexico NWM
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.

Also published as 5 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.

  • Scutellaria platyphylla (Epling) B.L.Turner & Delprete
  • Scutellaria platyphylla var. occidentalis S.L.Rhodes & T.J.Ayers
  • Scutellaria potosina subsp. parviflora Epling
  • Scutellaria potosina var. platyphylla (Epling) B.L.Turner
  • Scutellaria tessellata Epling

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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