When does Berlandier's fiddlewood bloom in Texas?

Most often in July. Across 250 dated, research-grade observations of Citharexylum berlandieri in Texas, the flowering season runs roughly March to August.

Peak July In flower 250 Examined 509 State Texas

Flowering 250 in flower of 509 examined

46%

41%

70%

53%

56%

62%

71%

67%

45%

33%

25%

47%

Proportion of examined Citharexylum berlandieri in Texas in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	19	41	46%	32% to 61%
Feb	14	34	41%	26% to 58%
Mar	39	56	70%	57% to 80%
Apr	56	106	53%	43% to 62%
May	14	25	56%	37% to 73%
Jun	21	34	62%	45% to 76%
Jul	12	17	71%	47% to 87%
Aug	8	12	67%	39% to 86%
Sep	14	31	45%	29% to 62%
Oct	17	51	33%	22% to 47%
Nov	14	55	25%	16% to 38%
Dec	22	47	47%	33% to 61%

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Citharexylum berlandieri in Texas 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. 250 of 509 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 Texas found Citharexylum berlandieri in flower, not a forecast. It is computed only from observations made in Texas, 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

Citharexylum berlandieri

Berlandier's fiddlewood

Sourcesevery claim on this page

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