Croton californicusMüll.Arg.

California croton

WFO wfo-0000927530 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Croton californicus, photographed by Cricket Raspet
fig. a Cricket Raspet, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-06 / obs. 204032596
Croton californicus, photographed by Millie Basden
fig. b Millie Basden, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191168921
Croton californicus, photographed by Chao Shi
fig. c Chao Shi, CC0 1.0 / obs. 184291801
Croton californicus, photographed by James C. Davis
fig. d James C. Davis, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 194518938
Croton californicus, photographed by velodrome
fig. e velodrome, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192918541
Croton californicus, photographed by Ken-ichi Ueda
fig. f Ken-ichi Ueda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190779000
Croton californicus, photographed by Dee Shea Himes
fig. g Dee Shea Himes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183753559
Croton californicus, photographed by Dan Horowitz
fig. h Dan Horowitz, CC0 1.0 / obs. 190540655

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Flowering n = 714 observations

Peak flowering in Mar, from 714 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 11 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.

  • Croton californicus var. californicus
  • Croton californicus var. longipes (M.E.Jones) A.M.Ferguson
  • Croton californicus var. major S.Watson ex Engelm.
  • Croton californicus var. major S.Watson
  • Croton californicus var. mohavensis A.M.Ferguson
  • Croton californicus var. tenuis (S.Watson) A.M.Ferguson
  • Croton longipes M.E.Jones
  • Croton mohavensis Tidestr.
  • Croton tenuis S.Watson
  • Hendecandra procumbens Eschsch.
  • Oxydectes californica (Müll.Arg.) Kuntze

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.