Downingia laeta(Greene) Greene

Great Basin DowningiaGreat Basin calicoflower

WFO wfo-0000831921 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Downingia laeta, photographed by Alex Abair
fig. a Alex Abair, CC BY 4.0 / 2017-07-02 / obs. 8848502
Downingia laeta, photographed by Alex Abair
fig. b Alex Abair, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 8848499
Downingia laeta, photographed by Alex Abair
fig. c Alex Abair, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 8848506

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 10 botanical countries

Regions where Downingia laeta is native: Alberta, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Saskatchewan, Utah, Wyoming AlbertaCaliforniaColoradoIdahoMontanaNevadaOregonSaskatchewanUtahWyoming
Native distribution of Downingia laeta, 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
Alberta ABT NORTHERN AMERICA
California CAL
Colorado COL
Idaho IDA
Montana MNT
Nevada NEV
Oregon ORE
Saskatchewan SAS
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.

Also published as 3 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.

  • Bolelia brachyantha Rydb.
  • Bolelia laeta Greene
  • Downingia brachyantha (Rydb.) A.Nelson & J.F.Macbr.

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.