Tilia mexicanaSchltdl.

WFO wfo-0001142590 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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.

Tilia mexicana, photographed by Juan Carlos Pérez Magaña
fig. a Juan Carlos Pérez Magaña, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2019-04-26 / obs. 36455213
Tilia mexicana, photographed by Juan Carlos Pérez Magaña
fig. b Juan Carlos Pérez Magaña, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 36455097
Tilia mexicana, photographed by Juan Carlos Pérez Magaña
fig. c Juan Carlos Pérez Magaña, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 36455152

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Tilia mexicana is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southwest Mexico CentralMexico NortheastMexico Southwest
Native distribution of Tilia mexicana, 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
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Southwest MXS

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.

  • Tilia ambigua Sarg. ex Bush
  • Tilia americana var. mexicana (Schltdl.) Hardin
  • Tilia arsenei Bush
  • Tilia caroliniana subsp. occidentalis (Rose) Pigott
  • Tilia coahuilana Bush
  • Tilia houghii Rose
  • Tilia longipes Bush
  • Tilia mexicana f. pringlei V.Engl.
  • Tilia mexicana var. houghii V.Engl.
  • Tilia mexicana var. occidentalis (Rose) V.Engl.
  • Tilia nelsonii Bush
  • Tilia occidentalis Rose
  • Tilia patzcuamana Bush
  • Tilia pringlei Rose ex Bush
  • Tilia roseana Bush
  • Tilia rotunda Bush
  • Tilia sargentiana Bush

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.