Bebbia junceaGreene

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WFO wfo-0000127518 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Bebbia juncea, photographed by Amthinkia
fig. a Amthinkia, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-27 / obs. 201124726
Bebbia juncea, photographed by Bobby McCabe
fig. b Bobby McCabe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193408849
Bebbia juncea, photographed by Andrew Meeds
fig. c Andrew Meeds, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192720922
Bebbia juncea, photographed by Bobby McCabe
fig. d Bobby McCabe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192031105
Bebbia juncea, photographed by Andrew Meeds
fig. e Andrew Meeds, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186161729
Bebbia juncea, photographed by Bobby McCabe
fig. f Bobby McCabe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183440790
Bebbia juncea, photographed by Amy
fig. g Amy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182810365
Bebbia juncea, photographed by Andrew Meeds
fig. h Andrew Meeds, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182410697

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Bebbia juncea is native: Arizona, California, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah ArizonaCaliforniaMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestNevadaNew MexicoTexasUtah
Native distribution of Bebbia juncea, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Arizona ARI NORTHERN AMERICA
California CAL
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Nevada NEV
New Mexico NWM
Texas TEX
Utah UTA

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 1,491 in flower of 2,115 examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Bebbia juncea 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. 1,491 of 2,115 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.cgje2x.

Also published as 2 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.

  • Bebbia aspera A.Nelson
  • Bebbia filifolia M.E.Jones

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.