When does Common Madia bloom in California?

Most often in November. Across 865 dated, research-grade observations of Madia elegans in California, the flowering season runs roughly February to December.

Peak November In flower 865 Examined 905 State California

Flowering 865 in flower of 905 examined

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78%

97%

98%

93%

92%

94%

99%

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100%

Proportion of examined Madia elegans in California in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	1	1	too few examined
Feb	4	5	80%	38% to 96%
Mar	7	9	78%	45% to 94%
Apr	58	60	97%	89% to 99%
May	104	106	98%	93% to 99%
Jun	95	102	93%	87% to 97%
Jul	163	178	92%	87% to 95%
Aug	123	131	94%	88% to 97%
Sep	144	145	99%	96% to 100%
Oct	107	109	98%	94% to 100%
Nov	49	49	100%	93% to 100%
Dec	10	10	100%	72% to 100%

Peak flowering in Nov. Each bar is the share of Madia elegans 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. 865 of 905 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. One month has fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for it. 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 Madia elegans 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

Madia elegans

Common Madia

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.