When does Sweetbush bloom in Nevada?

Most often in April. Across 82 dated, research-grade observations of Bebbia juncea in Nevada, the flowering season runs roughly April to December.

Peak April In flower 82 Examined 118 State Nevada

Flowering 82 in flower of 118 examined

Proportion of examined Bebbia juncea in Nevada in flower, by month
Month In flower Examined Share 95% interval
Jan 3 5 60% 23% to 88%
Feb 1 5 20% 4% to 62%
Mar 4 12 33% 14% to 61%
Apr 22 25 88% 70% to 96%
May 9 12 75% 47% to 91%
Jun 6 9 67% 35% to 88%
Jul 0 3 too few examined
Aug 1 1 too few examined
Sep 2 2 too few examined
Oct 6 11 55% 28% to 79%
Nov 13 15 87% 62% to 96%
Dec 15 18 83% 61% to 94%

Peak flowering in Apr. Each bar is the share of Bebbia juncea in Nevada 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. 82 of 118 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 3 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 Nevada found Bebbia juncea in flower, not a forecast. It is computed only from observations made in Nevada, 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

Sourcesevery claim on this page

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