When does turkey tangle frogfruit bloom in Texas?

Most often in August. Across 1,013 dated, research-grade observations of Phyla nodiflora in Texas, the flowering season runs roughly March to October.

Peak August In flower 1,013 Examined 1,069 State Texas

Flowering 1,013 in flower of 1,069 examined

67%

80%

96%

98%

99%

98%

99%

94%

91%

74%

54%

Proportion of examined Phyla nodiflora in Texas in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	4	6	67%	30% to 90%
Feb	2	2	too few examined
Mar	12	15	80%	55% to 93%
Apr	218	228	96%	92% to 98%
May	189	193	98%	95% to 99%
Jun	131	133	99%	95% to 100%
Jul	109	111	98%	94% to 100%
Aug	98	99	99%	95% to 100%
Sep	101	107	94%	88% to 97%
Oct	116	127	91%	85% to 95%
Nov	26	35	74%	58% to 86%
Dec	7	13	54%	29% to 77%

Peak flowering in Aug. Each bar is the share of Phyla nodiflora 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. 1,013 of 1,069 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. One month has fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for it. 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 Phyla nodiflora 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

Phyla nodiflora

turkey tangle frogfruit

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.