Tribulus terrestrisL.

puncture vine

WFO wfo-0000457857 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Tribulus terrestris, photographed by Daniel S.
fig. a Daniel S., CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-08 / obs. 204521593
Tribulus terrestris, photographed by Kevin Faccenda
fig. b Kevin Faccenda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204062100
Tribulus terrestris, photographed by kbkash
fig. c kbkash, CC0 1.0 / obs. 194778191
Tribulus terrestris, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. d Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 193796486
Tribulus terrestris, photographed by James C. Davis
fig. e James C. Davis, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 188171231
Tribulus terrestris, photographed by Kym Nicolson
fig. f Kym Nicolson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182805166
Tribulus terrestris, photographed by Tim Kirsten
fig. g Tim Kirsten, CC0 1.0 / obs. 180336451
Tribulus terrestris, photographed by Kevin Faccenda
fig. h Kevin Faccenda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183350904

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Flowering n = 2,730 observations

Peak flowering in Sep, from 2,730 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 35 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.

  • Hedysarum uniflorum Lapeyr.
  • Tribulus acanthococcus F.Muell.
  • Tribulus albescens Schltr. ex Dinter
  • Tribulus albus Poir.
  • Tribulus bicornutus Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
  • Tribulus gussonei Tod. & Pirain. ex Parl.
  • Tribulus hispidus C.Presl
  • Tribulus humifusus Schumach. & Thonn.
  • Tribulus intermedius Kralik
  • Tribulus kotschyanus Boiss.
  • Tribulus lanuginosus L.
  • Tribulus lanuginosus var. orientalis (A.Kern.) M.P.Nayar & G.S.Giri
  • Tribulus maximus var. roseus Kuntze
  • Tribulus micans Welw.
  • Tribulus murex Schltr.
  • Tribulus murex C.Presl
  • Tribulus muricatus Stokes
  • Tribulus orientalis A.Kern.
  • Tribulus parvispinus var. intermedius (Kralik) Hosni
  • Tribulus rajasthanensis Bhandari & V.S.Sharma
  • Tribulus robustus Boiss. & Noë
  • Tribulus saharae A.Chev.
  • Tribulus terrestris prol. orientalis (A.Kern.) P.Graebn.
  • Tribulus terrestris subsp. orientalis (A.Kern.) Dostál

and 11 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.

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