Brazilian bachelor's button
Centratherum punctatum Cass.
- light
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- water
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- tall
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- wide
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Asteraceae
Also called Brazilian Buttonflower, Brazilian button flower, Larkdaisy
Formerly Ampherephis aristata, Ampherephis intermedia, Ampherephis mutica, Ampherephis pulchella, and 23 more
When it flowers
Flowers December to September in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- S. Trop. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
Not known yet: light, height, spread, water, flowers, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
Grow it with
Suggested by a rule, not by a gardener: same climate (kew), flowering when this plant does not (inaturalist), and a different shape.
AcerolaFlowers October to November, when this does not
Arabian jasmineFlowers October to November, when this does not
Barbados gooseberryFlowers October to November, when this does not
Barbados lilyFlowers October to November, when this does not
Black-eyed Susan vineFlowers October to November, when this does not
Blue dazeFlowers October to November, when this does not
In other languages (10)
- Portuguese
- Perpétua-roxa, Gervão, Gervão-roxo
- Chinese
- 菲律賓鈕扣花, 菲律賓鈕釦花, 藍冠菊、菊薊、林檎薊、蘋果薊
- Chinese (China)
- 蓝冠菊
- Japanese
- ルリアザミ
- root
- magéwit
- Spanish
- Siempreviva, Siempreviva sudamericana
- Russian
- Центрантерум точечный
- Thai
- กระดุมไพลิน
- Finnish
- laventelinapikki
- Simplified Chinese
- 苹果蓟, 蓝冠菊
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
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