Gutierrezia dracunculoides(DC.) O.Hoffm.

prairie broomweed

WFO wfo-0000123086 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Gutierrezia dracunculoides, photographed by Catherine C. Galley
fig. a Catherine C. Galley, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-10-01 / obs. 103497736
Gutierrezia dracunculoides, photographed by Dan Johnson
fig. b Dan Johnson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102648783
Gutierrezia dracunculoides, photographed by Craig Martin
fig. c Craig Martin, CC0 1.0 / obs. 99204643
Gutierrezia dracunculoides, photographed by Annika Lindqvist
fig. d Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 97221006
Gutierrezia dracunculoides, photographed by Thomas Koffel
fig. e Thomas Koffel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 96542706
Gutierrezia dracunculoides, photographed by lejones417
fig. f lejones417, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 160786926
Gutierrezia dracunculoides, photographed by Robert Hoard
fig. g Robert Hoard, CC0 1.0 / obs. 96641635
Gutierrezia dracunculoides, photographed by Thomas Koffel
fig. h Thomas Koffel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 96541723

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Flowering n = 144 observations

Peak flowering in Oct, from 144 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.

  • Amphiachyris dracunculoides (DC.) Nutt.
  • Brachyris dracunculoides DC.
  • Brachyris dracunculoides var. angustissima DC.
  • Brachyris dracunculoides var. dracunculoides
  • Brachyris ramosissima Hook.
  • Gutierrezia dracunculoides (DC.) S.F.Blake
  • Gutierrezia lindheimeriana Scheele
  • Xanthocephalum amoenum var. intermedium Shinners
  • Xanthocephalum dracunculoides (DC.) Shinners

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.