Fallugia paradoxa(D.Don ex Tilloch & Taylor) Endl. ex Torr.

Apache plume

WFO wfo-0001003699 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Fallugia paradoxa, photographed by Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）
fig. a Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-04 / obs. 204326374
Fallugia paradoxa, photographed by Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）
fig. b Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203428530
Fallugia paradoxa, photographed by mark-groeneveld
fig. c mark-groeneveld, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202174653
Fallugia paradoxa, photographed by Annika Lindqvist
fig. d Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204716681
Fallugia paradoxa, photographed by Annika Lindqvist
fig. e Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204913196
Fallugia paradoxa, photographed by Andrew Tree
fig. f Andrew Tree, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201327412
Fallugia paradoxa, photographed by Michael Bunsen
fig. g Michael Bunsen, CC0 1.0 / obs. 196595508
Fallugia paradoxa, photographed by Annika Lindqvist
fig. h Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203749657

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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 = 759 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 759 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 10 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.

  • Fallugia acuminata (Wooton) Cockerell
  • Fallugia acuminata var. micrantha (Cockerell) Cockerell
  • Fallugia mexicana Walp.
  • Fallugia micrantha Cockerell
  • Fallugia paradoxa var. acuminata Wooton
  • Geum cercocarpoides DC.
  • Geum cercocarpoides DC. ex Ser.
  • Geum paradoxum (D.Don ex Tilloch & Taylor) Steud.
  • Geum plumosum Moc. & Sessé ex D.Don
  • Sieversia paradoxa D.Don ex Tilloch & Taylor

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.