Wild leadwort
ಚಿತ್ರಮೂಲசித்தரகம்തുമ്പക്കൊടുവേലി
Plumbago zeylanica L.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 3.0 m
- wide
- —
Plumbaginaceae
Also called Doctorbush, Ceylon leadwort, Wild white plumbago, White Flowered Leadwort, White leadwort
Formerly Findlaya alba, Molubda scandens, Plumbagidium scandens, Plumbago americana, and 14 more
When it flowers
Flowers all year 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
- Scrambling shrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Tropics & SubtropicsKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 3.0 mRead from Levy Preserve, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Chinese
- 白花丹, 烏面馬
- Hawaiian
- ʻilieʻe, Hiliee, Hilieʻe
- Spanish
- Aretitos
- root
- turicua, tlepatli, Masigomabe
- myn
- chaak
- Estonian
- tseiloni tinajuur
- Czech
- olověnec cejlonský
- Japanese
- セイロンマツリ, インドマツリ
- Afrikaans
- Witsyselbos, swartwaterbossie
- Russian
- Свинчатка цейлонская
- Chinese (China)
- 白花丹
- Portuguese
- Louco
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Levy Preserve, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.5
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Plumbago zeylanica (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.