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Blue plumbago

Plumbago auriculata

Blue plumbago (Plumbago auriculata) photographed by Devendra Bhardwaj

Image: Devendra Bhardwaj · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0 · Jhalana Doongri, Jaipur, Rajasthan · Resized

Scientific name
Plumbago auriculata
Family
Plumbaginaceae, order Caryophyllales
Group
Plant

Sky-blue flowers that seem to never stop.

  • Spot it Clusters of pale blue flowers on sprawling stems.
  • Home Gardens and hedges.
  • Food web Butterflies sip nectar; Zebra Blue caterpillars eat it.
  • Why it matters Gives butterflies nectar almost all year, and hosts Zebra Blue caterpillars.

Read more: Plumbago auriculata on Wikipedia

Sources and credits

Records and field notes

  • RajasthanDevendra Bhardwaj has 1 verified record of this species on iNaturalist in 2009, in Jaipur.[20]

Sources

  1. Devendra Bhardwaj. iNaturalist observations and notes, with place and date (inaturalist.org/people/devendrabhardwaj) (field record). The observer's own dated records and notes, with places. Statements in his notes are his own and were not independently checked by KJVF.
  2. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and GBIF species data (family, order, Hindi names, IUCN category) (database). Open biodiversity data. Used for classification, Hindi common names and the IUCN category where one is given.
  3. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (opening lines of each species article, CC BY-SA 4.0). The link on each entry goes to the article (reference). Not peer reviewed. Only the opening description is used, and statements about origin or medicinal use are left out.
  4. Short introductions and key points written with AI help (Google Gemini and Claude) and checked against GBIF where possible (reference). AI-assisted text for general readers. Please check important details before relying on them.

The tag before each record shows the place it was checked for.

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