Chaetopappa ericoides(Torr.) G.L.Nesom

rose heath

WFO wfo-0000096494 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Chaetopappa ericoides, photographed by Steve Woodward
fig. a Steve Woodward, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-17 / obs. 200331657
Chaetopappa ericoides, photographed by Dominic Gentilcore
fig. b Dominic Gentilcore, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198448774
Chaetopappa ericoides, photographed by Dominic Gentilcore
fig. c Dominic Gentilcore, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198443703
Chaetopappa ericoides, photographed by Tom Kennedy
fig. d Tom Kennedy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191167111
Chaetopappa ericoides, photographed by Andrew Tree
fig. e Andrew Tree, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186940194
Chaetopappa ericoides, photographed by Andrew Tree
fig. f Andrew Tree, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186269355
Chaetopappa ericoides, photographed by Andrew Tree
fig. g Andrew Tree, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186082736
Chaetopappa ericoides, photographed by Bobby McCabe
fig. h Bobby McCabe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162983711

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Chaetopappa ericoides is native: Arizona, California, Colorado, Kansas, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Wyoming ArizonaCaliforniaColoradoKansasMexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SouthwestNebraskaNevadaNew MexicoOklahomaTexasUtahWyoming
Native distribution of Chaetopappa ericoides, 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
Kansas KAN
Mexico Central MXC
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southwest MXS
Nebraska NEB
Nevada NEV
New Mexico NWM
Oklahoma OKL
Texas TEX
Utah UTA
Wyoming WYO

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 222 in flower of 235 examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Chaetopappa ericoides 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. 222 of 235 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 4 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 12 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.

  • Aster arenosus (A.Heller) S.F.Blake
  • Aster ericifolius Rothr.
  • Aster hirtifolius S.F.Blake
  • Aster leucelene S.F.Blake
  • Chrysopsis ericoides Torr. & James ex Eaton
  • Diplopappus ericoides (Torr.) Torr. & A.Gray
  • Diplopappus ericoides var. ericoides
  • Diplopappus ericoides var. hirtellus A.Gray
  • Inula ericoides Torr.
  • Leucelene ericoides (Torr.) Greene
  • Leucelene ericoides var. ericoides
  • Leucelene hirtella Rydb.

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.