When does Erythranthe verbenacea bloom in Utah?

Most often in September. Across 177 dated, research-grade observations of Erythranthe verbenacea in Utah, the flowering season runs roughly April to November.

Peak September In flower 177 Examined 195 State Utah

Flowering 177 in flower of 195 examined

Proportion of examined Erythranthe verbenacea in Utah in flower, by month
Month In flower Examined Share 95% interval
Jan 0 0 too few examined
Feb 0 0 too few examined
Mar 0 2 too few examined
Apr 4 5 80% 38% to 96%
May 55 57 96% 88% to 99%
Jun 28 31 90% 75% to 97%
Jul 7 8 88% 53% to 98%
Aug 11 15 73% 48% to 89%
Sep 42 43 98% 88% to 100%
Oct 21 23 91% 73% to 98%
Nov 8 9 89% 56% to 98%
Dec 1 2 too few examined

Peak flowering in Sep. Each bar is the share of Erythranthe verbenacea in Utah 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. 177 of 195 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 Utah found Erythranthe verbenacea in flower, not a forecast. It is computed only from observations made in Utah, 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

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. GBIF (iNaturalist Research-grade Observations). Dated flowering annotations in Utah. Every record achieved iNaturalist quality grade Research, which is applied upstream at export. 10.15468/dl.wt38fd. Retrieved 2026-07-14.
  2. World Flora Online Plant List. The accepted name. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.