Other conspecific taxa:

• Capsicum annuum var. annuum (0 accessions)
• Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum (0 accessions)

Common names:

• red capsicum  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• sweet pepper  (Source: BSBI) - English
• piment annuel  (Source: L Noms French ed7) - French
• poivron  (Source: L Noms French ed7) - French
• spanskpeppar  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish
• la liao  (Source: F ChinaEng) - Transcribed Chinese
• gochu  (Source: Kulturpflanze) - Transcribed Korean

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

• SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Florida, Georgia (e.), Louisiana]
• SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas]
• SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Arizona (s.)]
• NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Baja Sur]
• SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Campeche, Chiapas, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz, Yucatan]

Southern America

• CARIBBEAN: Anguilla, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenadines
• CENTRAL AMERICA: Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Colombia


Cultivated (widely cult.)

Naturalized (natzd. elsewhere)

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3. Balick, M. J. et al. Checklist of the vascular plants of Belize, with common names and uses. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 85. 2000 (L Belize NY)
4. Botanical Society of the British Isles BSBI taxon database (on-line resource). (BSBI)
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13. NatureServe NatureServe Explorer: an online encyclopedia of life (on-line resource). 2009- (NatureServe)
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Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2026. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://germoplasma.iniaf.gob.bo/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=8904. Accessed 7 junio 2026.