Metalasia muricata

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Metalasia muricata, photographed by linkie — fig. b linkie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195403110

Metalasia muricata, photographed by Jared Zachary Herman — fig. c Jared Zachary Herman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194268048

Metalasia muricata, photographed by Dagmar Gleiss — fig. d Dagmar Gleiss, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 194281828

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Flowering 136 in flower of 175 examined

91%

63%

92%

81%

88%

79%

74%

75%

63%

33%

100%

Proportion of examined Metalasia muricata in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	3	too few examined
Feb	10	11	91%	62% to 98%
Mar	10	16	63%	39% to 82%
Apr	33	36	92%	78% to 97%
May	17	21	81%	60% to 92%
Jun	14	16	88%	64% to 97%
Jul	11	14	79%	52% to 92%
Aug	20	27	74%	55% to 87%
Sep	9	12	75%	47% to 91%
Oct	5	8	63%	31% to 86%
Nov	2	6	33%	10% to 70%
Dec	5	5	100%	57% to 100%

Peak flowering in Dec. Each bar is the share of Metalasia muricata observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 136 of 175 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. One month has fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for it. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

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.

Erythropogon umbellatum DC.
Gnaphalium muricatum L.
Gnaphalium muricatum var. muricatum
Gnaphalium saturejifolium Berg. ex Moench
Gnaphalium umbellatum Schrank
Metalasia ericoides Sieber ex DC.
Metalasia muricata var. muricata
Metalasia umbellata Cass.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
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 and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.