Buddleja americana is the most widespread of all the Buddleja species native to the Americas its range extending south from Tamaulipas Mexico through Central America and much of the West Indies into South America reaching eastward to Venezuela westward as far as the Galapagos and south to Bolivia. It occurs at elevations from sea level to 2500 m in a variety of habitats including cloud forest mountain savanna pine – oak forest and rocky slopes near rivers.
binomial authority
Carl Linnaeus
class
Magnoliopsida
division
Flowering plant
family
Scrophulariaceae
genus
Buddleja
kingdom
Plant
order
Lamiales
synonym
*Buddleja americana var. albiflora (M.Gómez), *Buddleja americana var. rothschulii (Loes. ), *Buddleja callicarpoides (Kunth ), *Buddleja cana (Willd.), *Buddleja dentata (Kunth), *Buddleja floribunda (Kunth), *Buddleja occidentalis (L.), *Buddleja spicata (Ruíz & Pav.), *Buddleja verbascifolia (Kunth )
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