Gratiola ebracteataBenth. ex A.DC.

bractless hedgehyssop

WFO wfo-0000708669 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Gratiola ebracteata, photographed by Randal
fig. a Randal, CC0 1.0 / 2021-05-28 / obs. 132354246
Gratiola ebracteata, photographed by J Straka
fig. b J Straka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 129771452
Gratiola ebracteata, photographed by J Straka
fig. c J Straka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 129772426
Gratiola ebracteata, photographed by Matt Berger
fig. d Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 66854648
Gratiola ebracteata, photographed by Matt Berger
fig. e Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 66852003
Gratiola ebracteata, photographed by Matt Berger
fig. f Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 66851798
Gratiola ebracteata, photographed by Aaron Liston
fig. g Aaron Liston, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 20291207
Gratiola ebracteata, photographed by Melanie Link-Perez
fig. h Melanie Link-Perez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18638815

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Gratiola ebracteata is native: British Columbia, California, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington British ColumbiaCaliforniaIdahoMontanaOregonWashington
Native distribution of Gratiola ebracteata, 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
British Columbia BRC NORTHERN AMERICA
California CAL
Idaho IDA
Montana MNT
Oregon ORE
Washington WAS

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.

Flowering 196 in flower of 214 examined

Peak flowering in Mar. Each bar is the share of Gratiola ebracteata observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 196 of 214 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 6 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 1 synonym

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.

  • Gonatia gratioloides Nutt. ex DC.

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.

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