When does partridgeberry bloom in Florida?

Most often in March. Across 381 dated, research-grade observations of Mitchella repens in Florida, the flowering season runs roughly March to April.

Peak March In flower 381 Examined 1,043 State Florida

Flowering 381 in flower of 1,043 examined

14%

22%

73%

61%

10%

18%

10%

17%

Proportion of examined Mitchella repens in Florida in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	17	119	14%	9% to 22%
Feb	24	107	22%	16% to 31%
Mar	171	234	73%	67% to 78%
Apr	126	206	61%	54% to 68%
May	5	48	10%	5% to 22%
Jun	2	24	8%	2% to 26%
Jul	3	17	18%	6% to 41%
Aug	3	32	9%	3% to 24%
Sep	1	30	3%	1% to 17%
Oct	5	57	9%	4% to 19%
Nov	7	70	10%	5% to 19%
Dec	17	99	17%	11% to 26%

Peak flowering in Mar. Each bar is the share of Mitchella repens in Florida 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. 381 of 1,043 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 Florida found Mitchella repens in flower, not a forecast. It is computed only from observations made in Florida, 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

Mitchella repens

partridgeberry

Sourcesevery claim on this page

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