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For the purposes of this category, "South America" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD), which calls it Southern America, namely as one of the nine "botanical continents". It includes the following regions: Flora of Central America; Flora of the Caribbean; Flora of northern South ...
Garden plants of Central America (38 P) Pages in category "Garden plants of South America" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 202 total.
Cacti of South America. As this is a subcategory of Category:Flora of Southern America, "South America" means "Southern America" as defined by the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions. See the maps at Category:Flora of Southern America. In particular, it includes Central America and the Caribbean.
The species are native to the Neotropical realm (in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, and as far south as Brazil and as far north as Florida in the United States), but are often grown as cosmopolitan ornamentals in tropical regions, especially in Hawaii, as well as hot desert climates in the Arabian Peninsula with proper irrigation ...
Flora of Southern America by conservation status. Flora−plant species native to South America listed by the IUCN Red List and/or NatureServe . All IUCN Red List categories
The genus Alstroemeria is exclusively native to South America, with various species found ranging from Venezuela (3° north of the Equator), to Tierra del Fuego, Argentina (53° South). [4] Within this range of the entire genus, two centers of species diversity are recognized, one in Brazil and one in Chile. [5]
The genus was named by Carl Linnaeus in honor of his friend, the Swedish botanist Clas Alströmer, who was the first to collect seeds of these species in South America and send them to Europe in 1753. Alstroemeria plants are tuberous or rhizomatous and perennial. Each erect stem has a foliage of a few lanceolate leaves and ends in an umbel of 3 ...
This category contains articles related to the flora of southern South America (a region known in other geographic systems as the Southern Cone). For the purposes of this category, "southern South America" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD); as the southern region within ...