Searsia laevigata(L.) F.A.Barkley

blue-fruited crowberry

WFO wfo-0000434903 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Searsia laevigata, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. a Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-06-09 / obs. 205867884
Searsia laevigata, photographed by Diana Studer
fig. b Diana Studer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203517791
Searsia laevigata, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. c Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 204724642
Searsia laevigata, photographed by Tim Kirsten
fig. d Tim Kirsten, CC0 1.0 / obs. 193626823
Searsia laevigata, photographed by Dagmar Gleiss
fig. e Dagmar Gleiss, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 194683986
Searsia laevigata, photographed by Caroline Voget
fig. f Caroline Voget, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194308953
Searsia laevigata, photographed by linkie
fig. g linkie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195424906
Searsia laevigata, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 194269491

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Searsia laevigata is native: Cape Provinces Cape Provinces
Native distribution of Searsia laevigata, 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
Cape Provinces CPP AFRICA

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 36 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.

  • Rhus acuminata E.Mey.
  • Rhus atomaria Jacq.
  • Rhus burmanni DC.
  • Rhus crassinervia C.Presl
  • Rhus eckloniana C.Presl
  • Rhus elongata Jacq.
  • Rhus hirsuta Salisb.
  • Rhus incana Mill.
  • Rhus laevigata L.
  • Rhus laevigata f. cangoana Moffett
  • Rhus laevigata f. cangoana Moffett
  • Rhus laevigata var. atomaria Schönland
  • Rhus laevigata var. latifolia Schönland
  • Rhus laevigata var. villosa R.Fern.
  • Rhus livida Salisb.
  • Rhus lucida
  • Rhus mucronata Thunb.
  • Rhus mucronata var. atomaria Schönland
  • Rhus mucronata var. laevigata Schönland
  • Rhus mucronata var. latifolia Schönland
  • Rhus mucronata var. villosa Schönland
  • Rhus pendulina Eckl. & Zeyh.
  • Rhus pilipes C.Presl
  • Rhus pubescens (Mill.) Farw.

and 12 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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.