Calochortus flexuosusS.Watson

winding mariposa lily

WFO wfo-0000762718 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Calochortus flexuosus, photographed by Dee Shea Himes
fig. a Dee Shea Himes, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-23 / obs. 200084663
Calochortus flexuosus, photographed by Dee Shea Himes
fig. b Dee Shea Himes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200105892
Calochortus flexuosus, photographed by Paul McClellan
fig. c Paul McClellan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187441087
Calochortus flexuosus, photographed by Nolan Exe
fig. d Nolan Exe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 134136080
Calochortus flexuosus, photographed by Nolan Exe
fig. e Nolan Exe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 133489614
Calochortus flexuosus, photographed by Matt Berger
fig. f Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 71701011
Calochortus flexuosus, photographed by Matt Berger
fig. g Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 71399559
Calochortus flexuosus, photographed by Matt Berger
fig. h Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 71233190

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Calochortus flexuosus is native: Arizona, California, Colorado, Mexico Northwest, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah ArizonaCaliforniaColoradoMexico NorthwestNevadaNew MexicoUtah
Native distribution of Calochortus flexuosus, 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
Colorado COL
Mexico Northwest MXN
Nevada NEV
New Mexico NWM
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 609 in flower of 624 examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Calochortus flexuosus 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. 609 of 624 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 8 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.

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.

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