The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·72308GenusPlantae63,791 field observations
  1. Plants
  2. ›Vascular Plants
  3. ›flowering plants
  4. ›Dicots
  5. ›pinks, cactuses, and allies
  6. ›plumbago family
  7. ›Plumbagineae
plumbagos
Plate 1 of 9. (c) Riana Fourie, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Riana Fourie · via iNaturalist

plumbagos

Plumbago

Plumbago is a genus of 10–20 species of flowering plants in the family Plumbaginaceae, native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the world. Common names include plumbago and leadwort (names which are also shared by the genus Ceratostigma).

Continue reading on Wikipedia

19 branches of this genus, most-observed first

blue plumbago

speciesPlumbago auriculata

wild leadwort

speciesPlumbago zeylanica

common leadwort

speciesPlumbago europaea

iguana's tail

speciesPlumbago pulchella

Chilean plumbago

speciesPlumbago caerulea

scarlet leadwort

speciesPlumbago indica

Brandberg Plumbago

speciesPlumbago tristis

Plumbago aphylla

speciesPlumbago aphylla

Plumbago arabica

speciesPlumbago arabica

Namib Plumbago

speciesPlumbago pearsonii

Plumbago hunsbergensis

speciesPlumbago hunsbergensis

Brandberg plumbago

speciesPlumbago wissii

Plumbago pendula

speciesPlumbago pendula

Plumbago stenophylla

speciesPlumbago stenophylla

Plumbago amplexicaulis

speciesPlumbago amplexicaulis

Plumbago dawei

speciesPlumbago dawei

Plumbago montis-elgonis

speciesPlumbago montis-elgonis

Plumbago glandulicaulis

speciesPlumbago glandulicaulis

Plumbago ciliata

speciesPlumbago ciliata

See this branch on the Wheel of Life →
§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the old herbals & bestiaries

plumbagos in Rariorum Plantarum Historia (with Fungorum Historia)

Rariorum Plantarum Historia (with Fungorum Historia)

Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.506

plumbagos in History of Rare Plants

History of Rare Plants

Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.500

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Plumbago in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 72308.