Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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Native range 53 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Aldabra | ALD | AFRICA |
| Angola | ANG | |
| Benin | BEN | |
| Botswana | BOT | |
| Burkina | BKN | |
| Burundi | BUR | |
| Cameroon | CMN | |
| Cape Provinces | CPP | |
| Central African Republic | CAF | |
| Chad | CHA | |
| Comoros | COM | |
| Congo | CON | |
| DR Congo | ZAI | |
| Egypt | EGY | |
| Eswatini | SWZ | |
| Ethiopia | ETH | |
| Free State | OFS | |
| Gabon | GAB | |
| Gambia | GAM | |
| Ghana | GHA | |
| Guinea | GUI | |
| Guinea-Bissau | GNB | |
| Ivory Coast | IVO | |
| Kenya | KEN | |
| KwaZulu-Natal | NAT | |
| Lesotho | LES | |
| Liberia | LBR | |
| Madagascar | MDG | |
| Malawi | MLW | |
| Mali | MLI | |
| Mauritius | MAU | |
| Mozambique | MOZ | |
| Mozambique Channel Is. | MCI | |
| Namibia | NAM | |
| Nigeria | NGA | |
| Northern Provinces | TVL | |
| Réunion | REU | |
| Rodrigues | ROD | |
| Rwanda | RWA | |
| Senegal | SEN | |
| Seychelles | SEY | |
| Sierra Leone | SIE | |
| Socotra | SOC | |
| Somalia | SOM | |
| Sudan-South Sudan | SUD | |
| Tanzania | TAN | |
| Togo | TOG | |
| Uganda | UGA | |
| Zambia | ZAM | |
| Zimbabwe | ZIM | |
| Oman | OMA | ASIA-TEMPERATE |
| Saudi Arabia | SAU | |
| Yemen | YEM |
Not drawn on the map: Socotra. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.
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 91 in flower of 92 examined
Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Striga asiatica 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. 91 of 92 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 4 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 9 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.
- Buchnera asiatica L.
- Buchnera coccinea (Hook.) Benth.
- Campuleia coccinea Hook.
- Striga asiatica var. asiatica
- Striga asiatica var. coccinea (Hook.) Bennet
- Striga coccinea (Hook.) Benth.
- Striga eustriga Steud.
- Striga pusilla Hochst. ex Benth.
- Striga zangebarica Klotzsch
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
- 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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