Stevia ovataWilld.

roundleaf candyleaf

WFO wfo-0000073385 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Stevia ovata, photographed by Leticia Jiménez Hernández
fig. a Leticia Jiménez Hernández, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2017-09-07 / obs. 10332153
Stevia ovata, photographed by Viacheslav Shalisko
fig. b Viacheslav Shalisko, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 15209200
Stevia ovata, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. c Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 5121377
Stevia ovata, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. d Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 1300545
Stevia ovata, photographed by Dayan Romero
fig. e Dayan Romero, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18160317
Stevia ovata, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. f Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 28026114
Stevia ovata, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. g Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167952458
Stevia ovata, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. h Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166845446

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Stevia ovata is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Texas, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Venezuela Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestTexasColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorEl SalvadorGuatemalaHondurasNicaraguaPanamáVenezuela
Native distribution of Stevia ovata, 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
Colombia CLM SOUTHERN AMERICA
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS
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.

Flowering 103 in flower of 105 examined

Peak flowering in Nov. Each bar is the share of Stevia ovata 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. 103 of 105 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 8 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 21 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.

  • Stevia benthamiana Hieron.
  • Stevia benthamiana var. benthamiana
  • Stevia ehrenbergiana Schltdl.
  • Stevia ehrenbergiana Schlecht.
  • Stevia elongata Kunth
  • Stevia elongata var. elongata
  • Stevia erecta Walp.
  • Stevia fascicularis Less.
  • Stevia fascicularis Less.Schlecht. & Cham.
  • Stevia hyssopifolia Sims
  • Stevia jorullensis var. ehrenbergiana (Schltdl.) Sch.Bip.
  • Stevia nervosa DC.
  • Stevia ovata Dum.Cours.
  • Stevia ovata Lag.
  • Stevia ovata var. reglensis (Benth.) Grashoff
  • Stevia paniculata Lag.
  • Stevia quitensis Kunth
  • Stevia reglensis Benth.
  • Stevia rhombifolia var. uniaristata (DC.) Sch.Bip.
  • Stevia ternifolia Kunth
  • Stevia uniaristata DC.

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.