Sisyrinchium arenariumPoepp.

WFO wfo-0000786389 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Sisyrinchium arenarium, photographed by Nicolas Olejnik
fig. a Nicolas Olejnik, CC BY 4.0 / 2015-01-17 / obs. 1499607
Sisyrinchium arenarium, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. b Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 31060972
Sisyrinchium arenarium, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. c Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 31060973
Sisyrinchium arenarium, photographed by Nicolas Olejnik
fig. d Nicolas Olejnik, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107365546
Sisyrinchium arenarium, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 31060976
Sisyrinchium arenarium, photographed by Ezequiel Racker
fig. f Ezequiel Racker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196413591
Sisyrinchium arenarium, photographed by Ezequiel Racker
fig. g Ezequiel Racker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173322104
Sisyrinchium arenarium, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 31060974

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Sisyrinchium arenarium is native: Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Chile Central Argentina NortheastArgentina NorthwestArgentina SouthChile Central
Native distribution of Sisyrinchium arenarium, 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
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina Northwest AGW
Argentina South AGS
Chile Central CLC

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 17 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.

  • Bermudiana humilis (Phil.) Kuntze
  • Bermudiana nervosa (Phil.) Kuntze
  • Sisyrinchium adenostemon Phil.
  • Sisyrinchium adenostemon subsp. microspathum (Phil.) Ravenna
  • Sisyrinchium angustifolium Phil.
  • Sisyrinchium arenarium subsp. microspathum (Phil.) Ravenna
  • Sisyrinchium cuspidatum var. arenarium L.U.Molina
  • Sisyrinchium flexuosum Phil.
  • Sisyrinchium flexuosum Lindl.
  • Sisyrinchium humile Phil.
  • Sisyrinchium microspathum Phil.
  • Sisyrinchium multiflorum Phil.
  • Sisyrinchium nervosum Phil.
  • Sisyrinchium nervosum subsp. atrichum Ravenna
  • Sisyrinchium oligostachyum Phil.
  • Sisyrinchium pauperculum Phil.
  • Sisyrinchium striatum var. microspathum (Phil.) Speg.

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. 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.