When does hairyflower ruellia bloom in Texas?

Most often in March. Across 1,022 dated, research-grade observations of Ruellia ciliatiflora in Texas, the flowering season runs roughly March to October.

Peak March In flower 1,022 Examined 1,068 State Texas

Flowering 1,022 in flower of 1,068 examined

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94%

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67%

Proportion of examined Ruellia ciliatiflora in Texas in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	2	too few examined
Feb	0	0	too few examined
Mar	8	8	100%	68% to 100%
Apr	125	133	94%	89% to 97%
May	131	135	97%	93% to 99%
Jun	231	237	97%	95% to 99%
Jul	203	208	98%	95% to 99%
Aug	130	133	98%	94% to 99%
Sep	118	124	95%	90% to 98%
Oct	64	71	90%	81% to 95%
Nov	10	15	67%	42% to 85%
Dec	2	2	too few examined

Peak flowering in Mar. Each bar is the share of Ruellia ciliatiflora 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. 1,022 of 1,068 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 Texas found Ruellia ciliatiflora 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

Ruellia ciliatiflora

hairyflower ruellia

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.