Bauhinia lunarioides (Texasplume)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Bauhinia lunarioides, photographed by Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋） — fig. a Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-04 / obs. 203467458

Bauhinia lunarioides, photographed by Eric Knight — fig. b Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107260828

Bauhinia lunarioides, photographed by Francisco Martínez González — fig. c Francisco Martínez González, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 47205970

Bauhinia lunarioides, photographed by Juan Cruzado Cortés — fig. f Juan Cruzado Cortés, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 662183

Bauhinia lunarioides, photographed by José Gerardo Velasco — fig. g José Gerardo Velasco, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 195214819

Bauhinia lunarioides, photographed by Alison Northup — fig. h Alison Northup, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 24357215

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Native distribution of Bauhinia lunarioides, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Mexico Northeast	MXE	NORTHERN AMERICA
Texas	TEX

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 39 in flower of 52 examined

100%

83%

71%

Proportion of examined Bauhinia lunarioides in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	1	2	too few examined
Feb	1	1	too few examined
Mar	13	13	100%	77% to 100%
Apr	19	23	83%	63% to 93%
May	5	7	71%	36% to 92%
Jun	0	3	too few examined
Jul	0	2	too few examined
Aug	0	0	too few examined
Sep	0	0	too few examined
Oct	0	0	too few examined
Nov	0	0	too few examined
Dec	0	1	too few examined

Peak flowering in Mar. Each bar is the share of Bauhinia lunarioides 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. 39 of 52 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 9 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.cgje2x.

Also published as 5 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Bauhinia congesta (Britton & Rose) Lundell
Bauhinia jermyana (Britton) Lundell
Bauhinia macranthera var. grayana Wunderlin
Casparia congesta Britton & Rose
Casparia jermyana Britton

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.