Lithophragma heterophyllum(Hook. & Arn.) Hook. & Arn.

hillside woodland star

WFO wfo-0001135545 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Lithophragma heterophyllum, photographed by Nicholas Wei
fig. a Nicholas Wei, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-05-01 / obs. 193438048
Lithophragma heterophyllum, photographed by joergmlpts
fig. b joergmlpts, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186342866
Lithophragma heterophyllum, photographed by P Holroyd
fig. c P Holroyd, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201934468
Lithophragma heterophyllum, photographed by Nicholas Wei
fig. d Nicholas Wei, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 184536060
Lithophragma heterophyllum, photographed by joergmlpts
fig. e joergmlpts, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185581289
Lithophragma heterophyllum, photographed by Arvel Hernandez
fig. f Arvel Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188685776
Lithophragma heterophyllum, photographed by Nicholas Wei
fig. g Nicholas Wei, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 184535701
Lithophragma heterophyllum, photographed by Carrie Seltzer
fig. h Carrie Seltzer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183672657

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 1,179 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 1,179 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 3 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.

  • Lithophragma trilobum Rydb.
  • Tellima heterophylla Hook. & Arn.
  • Tellima triloba (Rydb.) Fedde

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.