Bellardia trixago(L.) All.

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WFO wfo-0000562280 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–f

Bellardia trixago, photographed by Juan C. Espinosa
fig. a Juan C. Espinosa, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-21 / obs. 200014755
Bellardia trixago, photographed by Jacqueline Jeanne
fig. b Jacqueline Jeanne, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202727339
Bellardia trixago, photographed by Quentin Groom
fig. c Quentin Groom, CC0 1.0 / obs. 198077001
Bellardia trixago, photographed by Quentin Groom
fig. d Quentin Groom, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197477587
Bellardia trixago, photographed by Chuck Wilson
fig. e Chuck Wilson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 198563209
Bellardia trixago, photographed by Chuck Wilson
fig. f Chuck Wilson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 198225754

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Flowering n = 4,394 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 4,394 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 36 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.

  • Alectorolophus trixago (L.) M.Bieb.
  • Bartsia bicolor DC.
  • Bartsia capensis (L.) Spreng.
  • Bartsia maxima Pers.
  • Bartsia rhinanthoides Hochst. ex Benth.
  • Bartsia trixago L.
  • Bartsia versicolor (Lam.) Pers.
  • Bellardia carnea (Griseb.) Wettst.
  • Bellardia trixago f. stricta Esteve
  • Bellardia trixago subvar. alba Rouy
  • Bellardia trixago subvar. bicolor (DC.) Rouy
  • Bellardia trixago subvar. flaviflora Rouy
  • Bellardia trixago subvar. versicolor (Lam.) Rouy
  • Bellardia trixago var. flaviflora (Boiss.) Maire
  • Bellardia trixago var. maxima Rouy
  • Bellardia trixago var. versicolor (Lam.) Cout.
  • Buchnera africana L.
  • Euphrasia trixago (L.) Vis.
  • Euphrasia versicolor Bubani
  • Glossostylis abyssinica Hochst. ex A.DC.
  • Lasiopera rhinanthina Hoffmanns. & Link
  • Rhinanthus bicolor Poir.
  • Rhinanthus capensis L.
  • Rhinanthus creticus F.Dietr.

and 12 more.

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.

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