When does Potentilla hebiichigo bloom in Louisiana?

Most often in November. Across 50 dated, research-grade observations of Potentilla hebiichigo in Louisiana, the flowering season runs roughly February to November.

Peak November In flower 50 Examined 207 State Louisiana

Flowering 50 in flower of 207 examined

Proportion of examined Potentilla hebiichigo in Louisiana in flower, by month
Month In flower Examined Share 95% interval
Jan 5 13 38% 18% to 64%
Feb 12 20 60% 39% to 78%
Mar 10 38 26% 15% to 42%
Apr 10 89 11% 6% to 19%
May 2 23 9% 2% to 27%
Jun 0 2 too few examined
Jul 0 0 too few examined
Aug 1 1 too few examined
Sep 0 1 too few examined
Oct 0 0 too few examined
Nov 5 7 71% 36% to 92%
Dec 5 13 38% 18% to 64%

Peak flowering in Nov. Each bar is the share of Potentilla hebiichigo 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. 50 of 207 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 Potentilla hebiichigo 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

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. 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.
  2. World Flora Online Plant List. The accepted name. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.