Buddleja sessiliflora

Tags: Flowering Plant.

Buddleja sessiliflora commonly known as Rio Grande Butterfly-bush or Tepozán is a species of flowering plant in the figwort family Scrophulariaceae. It is native to southern Arizona and the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas in the United States as well as much of central and northern Mexico excluding the Chihuahua Desert and Baja California Sur. The shrub grows in thorn savannah forests riparian zones along roadsides and in disturbed areas from sea level to 2800 m.

binomial authority

Carl Sigismund Kunth

class

Magnoliopsida

division

Flowering plant

family

Scrophulariaceae

genus

Buddleja

kingdom

Plant

order

Lamiales

synonym

* Buddleja barbata (Kunth & Bouché), * Buddleja melliodora (Kunth & Bouché), * Buddleja pringlei (Gray), * Buddleja pseudoverticillata (Martens & Galeotti), * Buddleja verticillata (Kunth), * Buddleja verticillata (Sessé & Moc.), * Buddleja wrightii (B.L.Rob.)