When does heartleaf suncup bloom in California?

Most often in April. Across 686 dated, research-grade observations of Chylismia cardiophylla in California, the flowering season runs roughly March to October.

Peak April In flower 686 Examined 961 State California

Flowering 686 in flower of 961 examined

53%

70%

87%

96%

77%

78%

49%

42%

Proportion of examined Chylismia cardiophylla in California in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	69	130	53%	45% to 61%
Feb	183	262	70%	64% to 75%
Mar	276	317	87%	83% to 90%
Apr	53	55	96%	88% to 99%
May	27	35	77%	61% to 88%
Jun	3	3	too few examined
Jul	2	2	too few examined
Aug	0	0	too few examined
Sep	0	0	too few examined
Oct	7	9	78%	45% to 94%
Nov	26	53	49%	36% to 62%
Dec	40	95	42%	33% to 52%

Peak flowering in Apr. Each bar is the share of Chylismia cardiophylla in California 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. 686 of 961 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 4 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 California found Chylismia cardiophylla in flower, not a forecast. It is computed only from observations made in California, 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

Chylismia cardiophylla

heartleaf suncup

Sourcesevery claim on this page

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