Lasthenia californicaDC. ex Lindl.

California goldfields

WFO wfo-0000092923 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Lasthenia californica, photographed by Nicholas Wei
fig. a Nicholas Wei, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-05-01 / obs. 193416427
Lasthenia californica, photographed by Alex
fig. b Alex, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188415630
Lasthenia californica, photographed by Chuck Wilson
fig. c Chuck Wilson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 183509813
Lasthenia californica, photographed by Cricket Raspet
fig. d Cricket Raspet, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191017583
Lasthenia californica, photographed by Alex
fig. e Alex, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183860280
Lasthenia californica, photographed by Dutza K.
fig. f Dutza K., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185471065
Lasthenia californica, photographed by Mary K. Hanson
fig. g Mary K. Hanson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181240684
Lasthenia californica, photographed by rappman
fig. h rappman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 119584266

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Flowering n = 904 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 904 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 37 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.

  • Baeria bakeri J.T.Howell
  • Baeria chrysostoma Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
  • Baeria chrysostoma f. aristosa H.M.Hall
  • Baeria chrysostoma f. chrysostoma
  • Baeria chrysostoma f. crassa H.M.Hall
  • Baeria chrysostoma f. nuda H.M.Hall
  • Baeria chrysostoma subsp. chrysostoma
  • Baeria chrysostoma subsp. hirsutula (Greene) Ferris
  • Baeria chrysostoma var. chrysostoma
  • Baeria chrysostoma var. palmeri (A.Gray) J.T.Howell
  • Baeria curta A.Gray
  • Baeria gracilis var. aristosa A.Gray
  • Baeria gracilis var. paleacea A.Gray
  • Baeria gracilis var. tenerrima (DC.) A.Gray
  • Baeria macrantha (A.Gray) A.Gray
  • Baeria macrantha var. bakeri (J.T.Howell) D.D.Keck
  • Baeria macrantha var. littoralis (A.Gray) Jeps.
  • Baeria macrantha var. macrantha
  • Baeria macrantha var. pauciaristata A.Gray
  • Baeria macrantha var. thalassophila J.T.Howell
  • Baeria palmeri A.Gray
  • Baeria palmeri var. clementina A.Gray
  • Baeria palmeri var. palmeri
  • Baeria tenerrima (DC.) A.Gray

and 13 more.

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.