When does American beautyberry bloom in Florida?

Most often in June. Across 624 dated, research-grade observations of Callicarpa americana in Florida, the flowering season runs roughly May to June.

Peak June In flower 624 Examined 4,628 State Florida

Flowering 624 in flower of 4,628 examined

17%

61%

75%

30%

Proportion of examined Callicarpa americana in Florida in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	12	203	6%	3% to 10%
Feb	3	130	2%	1% to 7%
Mar	6	106	6%	3% to 12%
Apr	50	287	17%	13% to 22%
May	201	330	61%	56% to 66%
Jun	231	309	75%	70% to 79%
Jul	63	209	30%	24% to 37%
Aug	21	493	4%	3% to 6%
Sep	11	878	1%	1% to 2%
Oct	7	1034	1%	0% to 1%
Nov	10	407	2%	1% to 4%
Dec	9	242	4%	2% to 7%

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Callicarpa americana in Florida 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. 624 of 4,628 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 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 Florida found Callicarpa americana in flower, not a forecast. It is computed only from observations made in Florida, 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

Callicarpa americana

American beautyberry

Sourcesevery claim on this page

GBIF (iNaturalist Research-grade Observations). Dated flowering annotations in Florida. 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.