Clarkia amoena(Lehm.) A.Nelson & J.F.Macbr.

Farewell-To-Spring

WFO wfo-0000608511 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Clarkia amoena, photographed by Alex
fig. a Alex, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-28 / obs. 201555208
Clarkia amoena, photographed by Jan Smith
fig. b Jan Smith, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136848368
Clarkia amoena, photographed by Don Loarie
fig. c Don Loarie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 125199515
Clarkia amoena, photographed by rappman
fig. d rappman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 91347229
Clarkia amoena, photographed by Braden J. Judson
fig. e Braden J. Judson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 80395812
Clarkia amoena, photographed by Daniel Levitis
fig. f Daniel Levitis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194871036
Clarkia amoena, photographed by Frances Oliver
fig. g Frances Oliver, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 80186291
Clarkia amoena, photographed by Daniel Levitis
fig. h Daniel Levitis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 80312634

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 1,548 observations

Peak flowering in Jul, from 1,548 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 48 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.

  • Clarkia amoena f. lindleyi (Douglas) A.Nelson & J.F.Macbr.
  • Clarkia amoena var. caurina (Abrams ex Piper) C.L.Hitchc.
  • Clarkia amoena var. lindleyi (Douglas) C.L.Hitchc.
  • Clarkia amoena var. pacifica (Peck) C.L.Hitchc.
  • Clarkia caurina (Abrams ex Piper) A.Nelson & J.F.Macbr.
  • Clarkia superba A.Nelson & J.F.Macbr.
  • Clarkia whitneyi (A.Gray) A.Nelson & J.F.Macbr.
  • Godetia amoena (Lehm.) G.Don
  • Godetia amoena f. huntiana Jeps.
  • Godetia amoena f. pygmaea Jeps.
  • Godetia amoena subsp. lindleyi (Douglas) Piper & Beattie
  • Godetia amoena var. gracilis C.L.Hitchc.
  • Godetia amoena var. huntiana (Jeps.) Jeps.
  • Godetia amoena var. lindleyi (Douglas) Jeps.
  • Godetia amoena var. pygmaea (Jeps.) Jeps.
  • Godetia amoena var. typica C.L.Hitchc.
  • Godetia bifrons (Lindl.) J.Carter
  • Godetia caurina Abrams ex Piper
  • Godetia grandiflora Lindl.
  • Godetia lehmanniana Spach
  • Godetia lindleyana Spach
  • Godetia macrantha (Nutt. ex Hook. & Arn.) Lilja
  • Godetia nivertiana Goujon
  • Godetia pacifica M.Peck

and 24 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.