When does low menodora bloom in Texas?

Most often in August. Across 337 dated, research-grade observations of Menodora heterophylla in Texas, the flowering season runs roughly January to December.

Peak August In flower 337 Examined 367 State Texas

Flowering 337 in flower of 367 examined

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Proportion of examined Menodora heterophylla in Texas in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	4	5	80%	38% to 96%
Feb	21	23	91%	73% to 98%
Mar	73	77	95%	87% to 98%
Apr	88	97	91%	83% to 95%
May	39	46	85%	72% to 92%
Jun	34	35	97%	85% to 99%
Jul	16	17	94%	73% to 99%
Aug	6	6	100%	61% to 100%
Sep	23	23	100%	86% to 100%
Oct	9	11	82%	52% to 95%
Nov	9	10	90%	60% to 98%
Dec	15	17	88%	66% to 97%

Peak flowering in Aug. Each bar is the share of Menodora heterophylla 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. 337 of 367 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 Texas found Menodora heterophylla 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

Menodora heterophylla

low menodora

Sourcesevery claim on this page

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