Hemitomes congestumA.Gray

gnome plant

WFO wfo-0001128931 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Hemitomes congestum, photographed by Jonathan Curley
fig. a Jonathan Curley, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-01-14 / obs. 176032178
Hemitomes congestum, photographed by Mandy Hackney
fig. b Mandy Hackney, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 168914541
Hemitomes congestum, photographed by Alan Rockefeller
fig. c Alan Rockefeller, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 168898118
Hemitomes congestum, photographed by Mandy Hackney
fig. d Mandy Hackney, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160411956
Hemitomes congestum, photographed by John Brew
fig. e John Brew, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 153927064
Hemitomes congestum, photographed by Mandy Hackney
fig. f Mandy Hackney, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 156982408
Hemitomes congestum, photographed by Christine Braaten
fig. g Christine Braaten, CC0 1.0 / obs. 149365930
Hemitomes congestum, photographed by Peter Abrahamsen
fig. h Peter Abrahamsen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150373769

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Flowering n = 209 observations

Peak flowering in Jul, from 209 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 8 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.

  • Hemitomes pumilum Greene
  • Hemitomes spicatum A.Heller
  • Hemitomes subterraneum (Eastw.) A.Heller
  • Newberrya congesta (A.Gray) Torr.
  • Newberrya longiloba Small
  • Newberrya pumila (Greene) Small
  • Newberrya spicata A.Gray
  • Newberrya subterranea Eastw.

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.