When does common pawpaw bloom in West Virginia?

Most often in April. Across 122 dated, research-grade observations of Asimina triloba in West Virginia, the flowering season runs roughly April.

Peak April In flower 122 Examined 718 State West Virginia

Flowering 122 in flower of 718 examined

88%

27%

Proportion of examined Asimina triloba in West Virginia in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	2	too few examined
Feb	0	4	too few examined
Mar	0	6	0%	0% to 39%
Apr	98	111	88%	81% to 93%
May	23	86	27%	19% to 37%
Jun	1	109	1%	0% to 5%
Jul	0	82	0%	0% to 4%
Aug	0	100	0%	0% to 4%
Sep	0	112	0%	0% to 3%
Oct	0	75	0%	0% to 5%
Nov	0	18	0%	0% to 18%
Dec	0	13	0%	0% to 23%

Peak flowering in Apr. Each bar is the share of Asimina triloba in West Virginia observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 122 of 718 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 2 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.wt38fd.

What this is, and what it is not

This is a record of when people in West Virginia found Asimina triloba in flower, not a forecast. It is computed only from observations made in West Virginia, so it is not the species’ global average dragged onto a map: the same plant flowers on different dates in different places, and that is the entire point of the page.

It will not tell you what your particular plant will do this year. Bloom time moves with the season, with altitude, and with the weather, and a warm February pulls everything forward. We publish the distribution and the sample size, and we refuse to draw a month that too few people examined.

The plant

Asimina triloba

common pawpaw

Sourcesevery claim on this page

GBIF (iNaturalist Research-grade Observations). Dated flowering annotations in West Virginia. Every record achieved iNaturalist quality grade Research, which is applied upstream at export. 10.15468/dl.wt38fd. Retrieved 2026-07-14.
World Flora Online Plant List. The accepted name. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.