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Ambrosia peruviana; photograph (c) Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2016-09-13

Ambrosia peruviana All.

· doubtful

Asteraceae · Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast +28

No habitat climate
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Ambrosia peruviana, photograph (c) GREGORY ANTHONY PAUCA TANCO, some rights reserved (CC BY)Ambrosia peruviana, photograph (c) GREGORY ANTHONY PAUCA TANCO, some rights reserved (CC BY)Ambrosia peruviana, photograph (c) GREGORY ANTHONY PAUCA TANCO, some rights reserved (CC BY)Ambrosia peruviana, photograph (c) M. Socorro González Elizondo, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)Ambrosia peruviana, photograph (c) M. Socorro González Elizondo, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)Ambrosia peruviana, photograph (c) ELOYJIMENEZ13, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) 11 photographs ›

Summary

Ambrosia peruviana is a species of plant in the family Asteraceae. It occurs from Mexico south to Argentina, being common in the Antilles and the Andes.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Ambrosia peruviana", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Ambrosia

In the ancient Greek myths, ambrosia is the food or drink of the Greek gods, and is often depicted as conferring longevity or immortality upon whoever consumed it. It was brought to the gods in Olympus by doves and served either by Hebe or by Ganymede at the heavenly feast.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Ambrosia", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 38 of the 39 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeMexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, Mexico Southeast, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is. AB Ant, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is., Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil Northeast, Brazil North, Chile North · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker12.167, -86.05 · in the densest population, 19 records (49% of those in range)
Kew's description“perennial” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 39 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 27 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 38 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 4° block of the 39 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) GREGORY ANTHONY PAUCA TANCO, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); (c) M. Socorro González Elizondo, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (2); (c) ELOYJIMENEZ13, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA).

Other Ambrosia 19 in the reference

Ambrosia acanthicarpa Ambrosia acanthicarpa Annual bursage Photo: CC BY, Anders HastingsAmbrosia ambrosioides Ambrosia ambrosioides Big bursage Photo: CC BY, Bruce HartmanAmbrosia arborescens Ambrosia arborescens Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Efrain FreireAmbrosia artemisiifolia Ambrosia artemisiifolia Ragweed Photo: CC BY, Bobo-XAmbrosia bryantii Ambrosia bryantii Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Juan Cruzado CortésAmbrosia chamissonis Ambrosia chamissonis Beachbur Photo: CC0, author not statedAmbrosia cheiranthifolia Ambrosia cheiranthifolia South Texas ambrosia Photo: CC BY, Eric KnightAmbrosia chenopodiifolia Ambrosia chenopodiifolia San Diego bursage Photo: CC BY, Sula VanderplankAmbrosia confertiflora Ambrosia confertiflora Weakleaf burr ragweed Photo: CC BY, CK2AZAmbrosia cordifolia Ambrosia cordifolia Tucson burr ragweed Photo: CC0, author not statedAmbrosia deltoidea Ambrosia deltoidea Triangle bursage Photo: CC BY, Matt BergerAmbrosia dumosa Ambrosia dumosa White bur-sage Photo: CC BY, CK2AZ all 20 ›

Names & registers

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The record

Family
Asteraceae
Described by
All.
Native to
Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Gulf +27
Wild records
39 in range · 27 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 3 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 2 at a herbarium; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21found by its label; its POWO identifier 60466716-2 is Kew's for Ambrosia peruviana All.
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 8 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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