Epifagus virginiana(L.) Barton

Beechdrops

WFO wfo-0001089208 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Epifagus virginiana, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. a Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-08 / obs. 196067276
Epifagus virginiana, photographed by Annie Weissman
fig. b Annie Weissman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204914018
Epifagus virginiana, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. c Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197642456
Epifagus virginiana, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. d Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 187957762
Epifagus virginiana, photographed by Steven Lamonde
fig. e Steven Lamonde, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198823720
Epifagus virginiana, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. f Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 193296731
Epifagus virginiana, photographed by Matt Schultz
fig. g Matt Schultz, CC0 1.0 / obs. 186282271
Epifagus virginiana, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. h Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 185385018

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Flowering n = 525 observations

Peak flowering in Sep, from 525 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 9 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.

  • Epifagus americana Nutt.
  • Epifagus virginiana f. atropurpurea Pease
  • Epifagus virginiana f. pallida Weath.
  • Epifagus virginiana f. virginiana
  • Epifagus virginiana var. rauana Austin
  • Leptamnium virginianum Raf.
  • Mylanche virginiana Wallr.
  • Orobanche virginiana L.
  • Orobanche virginica Hill

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.