When does coastal manroot bloom in Oregon?

Most often in April. Across 641 dated, research-grade observations of Marah oregana in Oregon, the flowering season runs roughly April to May.

Peak April In flower 641 Examined 868 State Oregon

Flowering 641 in flower of 868 examined

56%

87%

86%

67%

26%

19%

Proportion of examined Marah oregana in Oregon in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	1	1	too few examined
Feb	0	3	too few examined
Mar	23	41	56%	41% to 70%
Apr	206	237	87%	82% to 91%
May	299	347	86%	82% to 89%
Jun	86	128	67%	59% to 75%
Jul	18	68	26%	17% to 38%
Aug	6	31	19%	9% to 36%
Sep	0	9	0%	0% to 30%
Oct	1	2	too few examined
Nov	1	1	too few examined
Dec	0	0	too few examined

Peak flowering in Apr. Each bar is the share of Marah oregana in Oregon 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. 641 of 868 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 5 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 Oregon found Marah oregana in flower, not a forecast. It is computed only from observations made in Oregon, 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

Marah oregana

coastal manroot

Sourcesevery claim on this page

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