When does green fly orchid bloom in Florida?

Most often in July. Across 220 dated, research-grade observations of Epidendrum conopseum in Florida, the flowering season runs roughly July to November.

Peak July In flower 220 Examined 441 State Florida

Flowering 220 in flower of 441 examined

42%

33%

12%

32%

35%

78%

50%

62%

68%

57%

Proportion of examined Epidendrum conopseum in Florida in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	13	31	42%	26% to 59%
Feb	11	33	33%	20% to 50%
Mar	1	22	5%	1% to 22%
Apr	2	17	12%	3% to 34%
May	10	31	32%	19% to 50%
Jun	14	40	35%	22% to 50%
Jul	32	41	78%	63% to 88%
Aug	14	18	78%	55% to 91%
Sep	19	38	50%	35% to 65%
Oct	40	65	62%	49% to 72%
Nov	27	40	68%	52% to 80%
Dec	37	65	57%	45% to 68%

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Epidendrum conopseum 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. 220 of 441 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 Epidendrum conopseum 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

Epidendrum conopseum

green fly orchid

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.