When does Butterweed bloom in Louisiana?

Most often in May. Across 562 dated, research-grade observations of Packera glabella in Louisiana, the flowering season runs roughly January to May.

Peak May In flower 562 Examined 609 State Louisiana

Flowering 562 in flower of 609 examined

87%

88%

99%

97%

100%

62%

67%

Proportion of examined Packera glabella in Louisiana in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	52	60	87%	76% to 93%
Feb	133	151	88%	82% to 92%
Mar	221	224	99%	96% to 100%
Apr	110	113	97%	92% to 99%
May	14	14	100%	78% to 100%
Jun	1	1	too few examined
Jul	0	0	too few examined
Aug	0	0	too few examined
Sep	1	1	too few examined
Oct	2	2	too few examined
Nov	8	13	62%	36% to 82%
Dec	20	30	67%	49% to 81%

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Packera glabella in Louisiana 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. 562 of 609 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 Louisiana found Packera glabella in flower, not a forecast. It is computed only from observations made in Louisiana, 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

Packera glabella

Butterweed

Sourcesevery claim on this page

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