Calliandra calothyrsus

Native Range

Native Continent

Northern America, Southern America

Northern America

Mexico, Durango, Sinaloa, Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacán de Ocampo, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave,

Southern America

Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, El Salvador,

Natural Habitat

Secondary vegetation, often in thickets. It is an aggressive colonizer on disturbed sites such as recent landslides and roadsides. Dry to wet thickets, often on steep open slopes, at elevations of 300 – 1,800 metres.