When does manyflower marshpennywort bloom in Texas?

Most often in March. Across 247 dated, research-grade observations of Hydrocotyle umbellata in Texas, the flowering season runs roughly March to November.

Peak March In flower 247 Examined 255 State Texas

Flowering 247 in flower of 255 examined

Proportion of examined Hydrocotyle umbellata in Texas in flower, by month
Month In flower Examined Share 95% interval
Jan 0 0 too few examined
Feb 0 0 too few examined
Mar 19 19 100% 83% to 100%
Apr 51 53 96% 87% to 99%
May 46 47 98% 89% to 100%
Jun 26 26 100% 87% to 100%
Jul 21 21 100% 85% to 100%
Aug 14 14 100% 78% to 100%
Sep 22 23 96% 79% to 99%
Oct 26 26 100% 87% to 100%
Nov 14 15 93% 70% to 99%
Dec 8 11 73% 43% to 90%

Peak flowering in Mar. Each bar is the share of Hydrocotyle umbellata 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. 247 of 255 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 2 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 Texas found Hydrocotyle umbellata 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

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. 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.
  2. World Flora Online Plant List. The accepted name. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.