When does tropical bushmint bloom in Florida?

Most often in August. Across 223 dated, research-grade observations of Cantinoa mutabilis in Florida, the flowering season runs roughly February to December.

Peak August In flower 223 Examined 253 State Florida

Flowering 223 in flower of 253 examined

75%

86%

33%

40%

77%

94%

91%

100%

95%

96%

95%

93%

Proportion of examined Cantinoa mutabilis in Florida in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	6	8	75%	41% to 93%
Feb	6	7	86%	49% to 97%
Mar	2	6	33%	10% to 70%
Apr	6	15	40%	20% to 64%
May	17	22	77%	57% to 90%
Jun	29	31	94%	79% to 98%
Jul	21	23	91%	73% to 98%
Aug	41	41	100%	91% to 100%
Sep	38	40	95%	84% to 99%
Oct	26	27	96%	82% to 99%
Nov	18	19	95%	75% to 99%
Dec	13	14	93%	69% to 99%

Peak flowering in Aug. Each bar is the share of Cantinoa mutabilis 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. 223 of 253 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 Cantinoa mutabilis 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

Cantinoa mutabilis

tropical bushmint

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.