When does Field madder bloom in Texas?

Most often in May. Across 734 dated, research-grade observations of Sherardia arvensis in Texas, the flowering season runs roughly January to November.

Peak May In flower 734 Examined 764 State Texas

Flowering 734 in flower of 764 examined

91%

96%

100%

82%

78%

Proportion of examined Sherardia arvensis in Texas in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	30	33	91%	76% to 97%
Feb	100	110	91%	84% to 95%
Mar	241	251	96%	93% to 98%
Apr	263	264	100%	98% to 100%
May	61	61	100%	94% to 100%
Jun	14	14	100%	78% to 100%
Jul	0	0	too few examined
Aug	0	0	too few examined
Sep	1	1	too few examined
Oct	1	1	too few examined
Nov	9	11	82%	52% to 95%
Dec	14	18	78%	55% to 91%

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Sherardia arvensis 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. 734 of 764 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 4 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 Sherardia arvensis 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

Sherardia arvensis

Field madder

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.