Forestiera pubescensNutt.

Downy Forestiera

WFO wfo-0000832153 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g

Forestiera pubescens, photographed by Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）
fig. a Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-02-28 / obs. 181154691
Forestiera pubescens, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. b Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184288669
Forestiera pubescens, photographed by Annika Lindqvist
fig. c Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194904947
Forestiera pubescens, photographed by Annika Lindqvist
fig. d Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204672023
Forestiera pubescens, photographed by joergmlpts
fig. e joergmlpts, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175859686
Forestiera pubescens, photographed by Daniel S.
fig. f Daniel S., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162189100
Forestiera pubescens, photographed by Cliff Tyllick
fig. g Cliff Tyllick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 168257249

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Flowering n = 359 observations

Peak flowering in Feb, from 359 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 14 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.

  • Adelia neomexicana (A.Gray) Kuntze
  • Adelia neomexicana var. arizonica (A.Gray) A.Heller
  • Adelia parvifolia (A.Gray) Small
  • Adelia pubescens (Nutt.) Kuntze
  • Adelia sphaerocarpa (Torr.) Kuntze
  • Forestiera acuminata var. parvifolia A.Gray
  • Forestiera arizonica (A.Gray) Rydb.
  • Forestiera ligustrina var. pubescens (Nutt.) A.Gray
  • Forestiera neomexicana A.Gray
  • Forestiera neomexicana var. arizonica A.Gray
  • Forestiera pubescens subsp. neomexicana (A.Gray) A.E.Murray
  • Forestiera pubescens var. glabrifolia Shinners
  • Forestiera pubescens var. neomexicana (A.Gray) A.E.Murray
  • Forestiera sphaerocarpa Torr.

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.