When does Common Snowberry bloom in Washington?

Most often in June. Across 145 dated, research-grade observations of Symphoricarpos albus in Washington, the flowering season runs roughly June.

Peak June In flower 145 Examined 601 State Washington

Flowering 145 in flower of 601 examined

Proportion of examined Symphoricarpos albus in Washington in flower, by month
Month In flower Examined Share 95% interval
Jan 0 41 0% 0% to 9%
Feb 0 19 0% 0% to 17%
Mar 0 16 0% 0% to 19%
Apr 0 49 0% 0% to 7%
May 12 32 38% 23% to 55%
Jun 81 98 83% 74% to 89%
Jul 30 47 64% 50% to 76%
Aug 18 70 26% 17% to 37%
Sep 3 58 5% 2% to 14%
Oct 1 67 1% 0% to 8%
Nov 0 57 0% 0% to 6%
Dec 0 47 0% 0% to 8%

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Symphoricarpos albus in Washington 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. 145 of 601 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 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 Washington found Symphoricarpos albus in flower, not a forecast. It is computed only from observations made in Washington, 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 Washington. 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.