Conocarpus erectusL.

Green Buttonwood

WFO wfo-0000618338 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Conocarpus erectus, photographed by Jay Pruett
fig. a Jay Pruett, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-05 / obs. 186936773
Conocarpus erectus, photographed by Leila Dasher
fig. b Leila Dasher, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196570453
Conocarpus erectus, photographed by Tyler Bishop
fig. c Tyler Bishop, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200539821
Conocarpus erectus, photographed by stinger
fig. d stinger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188826202
Conocarpus erectus, photographed by Jay Pruett
fig. e Jay Pruett, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186963093
Conocarpus erectus, photographed by Shawn Taylor
fig. f Shawn Taylor, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197663037
Conocarpus erectus, photographed by Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas
fig. g Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188309225
Conocarpus erectus, photographed by Jay Pruett
fig. h Jay Pruett, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186959637

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 178 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 178 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 16 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.

  • Conocarpus acutifolius Willd. ex Schult.
  • Conocarpus erectus f. erectus
  • Conocarpus erectus f. sericeus (Fors ex DC.) Stace
  • Conocarpus erectus var. arboreus DC.
  • Conocarpus erectus var. argenteus Millsp.
  • Conocarpus erectus var. erectus
  • Conocarpus erectus var. procumbens (L.) DC.
  • Conocarpus erectus var. sericea Griseb.
  • Conocarpus erectus var. sericeus Fors ex DC.
  • Conocarpus procumbens L.
  • Conocarpus pubescens Schumach. & Thonn.
  • Conocarpus sericea Jiménez
  • Conocarpus sericeus (Fors ex DC.) G.Don
  • Conocarpus supina Crantz
  • Terminalia erecta (L.) Baill.
  • Terminalia erecta var. procumbens (L.) M.Gómez

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.