Asteraceae
Zinnia

Zinnia peruviana (L.) L.

First published in Syst. Nat., ed. 10. 2: 1221 (1759)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. U.S.A. to Venezuela and N. Argentina. It is an annual and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome. It is used to treat unspecified medicinal disorders, as animal food and a medicine and has environmental uses.

Distribution

Native to:

Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arizona, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, Georgia, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, North Carolina, Paraguay, Peru, South Carolina, Venezuela

Introduced into:

Bahamas, Bangladesh, Botswana, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Gulf of Guinea Is., Haiti, Hawaii, KwaZulu-Natal, Leeward Is., Lesotho, Mauritius, Namibia, Nepal, New South Wales, Northern Provinces, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rodrigues, Réunion, Swaziland, Trinidad-Tobago, Tubuai Is., Zimbabwe

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Liogier, A.H. (1996). Flora de la Española 8: 1-588. Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo.
  • Pruski, J.F. (ed.) (2018). Flora Mesoamericana 5(2): 1-608. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F.
  • Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Useful Plants of Boyacá Project

  • Kew Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) https://www.kew.org/science/data-and-resources/tools-and-services/medicinal-plant-names-services in The State of the World’s Plants Report–2016. (2016). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew https://stateoftheworldsplants.org

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Liogier, A.H. (1996). Flora de la Española 8: 1-588. Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo.
  • Pruski, J.F. (ed.) (2018). Flora Mesoamericana 5(2): 1-608. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F.
  • Sarder, N.U. & Hassan, M.A. (eds.) (2018). Vascular flora of Chittagong and the Chittagong Hill Tracts 3: 1-978. Bangladesh National Herbarium, Dhaka.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • D.J.N. Hind in Fl. Masc. 109: 179, t. 59 (1993).
  • L., Syst. Nat. ed. 10: 1221 (1759).
  • Wild in Kirkia 6: 54 (1967).

Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
  • Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
  • Diazgranados, M., Allkin, B., Black N., Cámara-Leret, R., Canteiro C., Carretero J., Eastwood R., Hargreaves S., Hudson A., Milliken W., Nesbitt, M., Ondo, I., Patmore, K., Pironon, S., Turner, R., Ulian, T. (2020). World Checklist of Useful Plant Species. Produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity.
  • GBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
  • Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) v.10 (2021); http://mpns.kew.org/
  • Ulian, T., Sacandé, M., Hudson, A., & Mattana, E. (2017). Conservation of indigenous plants to support community livelihoods: the MGU–Useful Plants Project. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 60:668-683.
  • Willis, K.J. (ed.) (2017). State of the World’s Plants 2017. Report. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Mar 1, 2011 Rico, L.; Windsor-Shaw, T.; McRobb, A.; Arroyo, L.; Arbelaez, A. [1344] Bolivia K000295452 Yes
Aug 1, 1993 Spruce, R. [6469] Peru K000200548 Unknown Type Material Yes
Aug 1, 1987 Coulter, Dr. [444] Mexico K000374436 Yes
Aug 1, 1987 Hartweg, K.T. [328] Mexico K000374438 Yes
Aug 1, 1987 McLean [s.n.] Peru K000374439 Yes
Aug 1, 1987 Hartweg, K.T. [328] Mexico K000374437 Yes
Sartwell, H.P. [s.n.] United States K003147939 No
Heath, A.; Heath, R. [2760] Botswana K001600912 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K003147932 No
{Drummond} [s.n.] United States K003147942 No
s.coll. [s.n.] United States K003147944 No
Scheen [s.n.] United States K001065953 Unknown Type Material Yes
Heath, A.; Heath, R. [2709] Botswana K001600945 Yes
Drummond, T. [115] United States K003147943 No
Wright, C. [1213] United States K003147937 No
Engelmann, G.; M.D. [18410] United States K003147931 No
Rico, L.; Windsor-Shaw, T.; Malavasi, A.; Viscarra, J. [1268] Bolivia K000295085 Yes
Wright, C. [1213] United States K003147938 No
Curtiss, A.H. [1417] United States K003147935 No
Curtiss, A.H. [1417] United States K003147934 No
Harley, R.M. [55100] Brazil K001031307 Yes
s.coll. [293] K003147936 No
Audibert [s.n.] K001031309 Yes
Saint-Hilaire, A. [355] Brazil K001031310 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K003147933 No
Lindheimer, F. [s.n.] United States K003147941 No
Rico, L.; Windsor-Shaw, T.; Malavasi, A.; Viscarra, J. [1235] Bolivia K000295256 Yes
Engelmann, G. [s.n.] United States K003147930 No
Engelmann, G. [s.n.] United States K001065952 Unknown Type Material Yes

Sources

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    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

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    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

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    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images

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    • Common Names from Plants and People Africa http://www.plantsandpeopleafrica.com/
    • © Plants and People Africa http://www.plantsandpeopleafrica.com http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

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    • ColPlantA database
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0