Eriogonum inflatumTorr. & Frém.

Desert Trumpet

WFO wfo-0000674950 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Eriogonum inflatum, photographed by Cricket Raspet
fig. a Cricket Raspet, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-15 / obs. 188445622
Eriogonum inflatum, photographed by Mark G
fig. b Mark G, CC0 1.0 / obs. 195460528
Eriogonum inflatum, photographed by Robert Webster
fig. c Robert Webster, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 198897623
Eriogonum inflatum, photographed by Robert Webster
fig. d Robert Webster, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 198898564
Eriogonum inflatum, photographed by Kimball Garrett
fig. e Kimball Garrett, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202291483
Eriogonum inflatum, photographed by Bobby McCabe
fig. f Bobby McCabe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197616839
Eriogonum inflatum, photographed by Bobby McCabe
fig. g Bobby McCabe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201342864
Eriogonum inflatum, photographed by Bobby McCabe
fig. h Bobby McCabe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197337406

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Flowering n = 1,819 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 1,819 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 6 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.

  • Eriogonum cordatum Torr. ex Benth.
  • Eriogonum glaucum Small
  • Eriogonum inflatum var. deflatum I.M.Johnst.
  • Eriogonum inflatum var. inflatum
  • Eriogonum trichopes subsp. cordatum (Torr. & Frém.) S.Stokes
  • Eriogonum trichopes subsp. glaucum (Small) S.Stokes

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.