Lygodesmia texana(Torr. & A.Gray) Greene ex Small

Texas Skeleton Plant

WFO wfo-0000024461 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Lygodesmia texana, photographed by Catherine C. Galley
fig. a Catherine C. Galley, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-08-30 / obs. 159740024
Lygodesmia texana, photographed by Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）
fig. b Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202049092
Lygodesmia texana, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. c Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 157646369
Lygodesmia texana, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. d Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 154593727
Lygodesmia texana, photographed by Cleveland Powell
fig. e Cleveland Powell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191992507
Lygodesmia texana, photographed by saltyhiker
fig. f saltyhiker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 149276918
Lygodesmia texana, photographed by Annika Lindqvist
fig. g Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152939958
Lygodesmia texana, photographed by aarongunnar
fig. h aarongunnar, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152127864

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Flowering n = 967 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 967 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 1 synonym

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.

  • Lygodesmia aphylla var. texana Torr. & 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.