Asteraceae
Clavel de muerto
Tithonia rotundifolia
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Tithonia
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Common names
By language (8)
- Chinese
- 圆叶肿柄菊, 圓葉腫柄菊, 万寿花肿柄菊, 墨西哥向日葵
- English
- Clavel de muerto
- Finnish
- Titonia
- German
- Rundblättrige Tithonie
- Japanese
- メキシコヒマワリ
- Malayalam
- മെക്സിക്കൻ സൂര്യകാന്തി
- Tongan
- Siolaʻā mekesikō
- Vietnamese
- Sơn quỳ, Hướng dương Mexico, Sơn quỳ lá tròn
Synonyms
- Helianthus speciosus Hook.
- Leighia speciosa DC.
- Tagetes rotundifolia Mill.
- Tithonia aristata Oerst.
- Tithonia aristata Oersted
- Tithonia heterophylla Griseb.
- Tithonia macrophylla S.Watson
- Tithonia speciosa (Hook.) Hook. ex Griseb.
- Tithonia speciosa (Hook.) Klatt
- Tithonia tagetiflora Lam.
- Tithonia uniflora J.F.Gmel.
- Tithonia vilmoriniana Pamp.
- Urbanisol aristatus (Oerst.) Kuntze
- Urbanisol heterophyllus Kuntze
- Urbanisol tagetiflora (Desf.) Kuntze
- Urbanisol tagetiflora f. tagetiflora
- Urbanisol tagetiflora var. tagetiflora
- Urbanisol tagetifolius Kuntze
- Urbanisol tagetifolius f. tagetifolius
- Urbanisol tagetifolius var. normalis Kuntze
- Urbanisol tagetifolius var. speciosus Kuntze
- Urbanisol tagetifolius var. tagetifolius
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Annual, Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: introduced, Puerto Rico: introduced, U.S. Virgin Islands: introduced
Photos
Photo: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Forest and Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Forest and Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Forest and Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Forest and Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.