Justicia californica(Benth.) D.N.Gibson

chuparosa

WFO wfo-0001044457 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Justicia californica, photographed by velodrome
fig. a velodrome, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-13 / obs. 202058421
Justicia californica, photographed by Ellen C Lovelidge
fig. b Ellen C Lovelidge, CC0 1.0 / obs. 186823603
Justicia californica, photographed by Philip Vanbergen
fig. c Philip Vanbergen, CC0 1.0 / obs. 184768928
Justicia californica, photographed by Gail A Baker
fig. d Gail A Baker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189840820
Justicia californica, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. e Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181385385
Justicia californica, photographed by Bruce Hartman
fig. f Bruce Hartman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182163905
Justicia californica, photographed by velodrome
fig. g velodrome, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204328648
Justicia californica, photographed by Craig Martin
fig. h Craig Martin, CC0 1.0 / obs. 180723352

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Flowering n = 3,147 observations

Peak flowering in Mar, from 3,147 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 4 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.

  • Beloperone californica Benth.
  • Beloperone californica var. conferta Brandegee
  • Jacobinia californica Nees
  • Sericographis californica A.Gray

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.