When does crimsoneyed rosemallow bloom in Ohio?

Most often in August. Across 639 dated, research-grade observations of Muenchhusia moscheutos in Ohio, the flowering season runs roughly July to August.

Peak August In flower 639 Examined 813 State Ohio

Flowering 639 in flower of 813 examined

Proportion of examined Muenchhusia moscheutos in Ohio in flower, by month
Month In flower Examined Share 95% interval
Jan 2 5 40% 12% to 77%
Feb 1 2 too few examined
Mar 0 4 too few examined
Apr 5 10 50% 24% to 76%
May 0 13 0% 0% to 23%
Jun 1 17 6% 1% to 27%
Jul 217 251 86% 82% to 90%
Aug 325 353 92% 89% to 94%
Sep 76 115 66% 57% to 74%
Oct 9 31 29% 16% to 47%
Nov 3 9 33% 12% to 65%
Dec 0 3 too few examined

Peak flowering in Aug. Each bar is the share of Muenchhusia moscheutos in Ohio 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. 639 of 813 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 3 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 Ohio found Muenchhusia moscheutos in flower, not a forecast. It is computed only from observations made in Ohio, 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 Ohio. 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.