Nemophila heterophyllaFisch. & C.A.Mey.

White nemophila

WFO wfo-0001066657 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Nemophila heterophylla, photographed by Cricket Raspet
fig. a Cricket Raspet, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-14 / obs. 197974109
Nemophila heterophylla, photographed by Trevor Van Loon
fig. b Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198430758
Nemophila heterophylla, photographed by Dutza K.
fig. c Dutza K., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197718160
Nemophila heterophylla, photographed by Cricket Raspet
fig. d Cricket Raspet, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196109706
Nemophila heterophylla, photographed by Steve Woodward
fig. e Steve Woodward, CC0 1.0 / obs. 196384278
Nemophila heterophylla, photographed by Ken-ichi Ueda
fig. f Ken-ichi Ueda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187640579
Nemophila heterophylla, photographed by Roger Raiche
fig. g Roger Raiche, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186824971
Nemophila heterophylla, photographed by Daniel Levitis
fig. h Daniel Levitis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194872461

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Flowering n = 614 observations

Peak flowering in Mar, from 614 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 17 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.

  • Nemophila decumbens Eastw.
  • Nemophila divaricata Eastw.
  • Nemophila diversifolia Eastw.
  • Nemophila fallax Eastw.
  • Nemophila flaccida Eastw.
  • Nemophila glauca Eastw.
  • Nemophila heterophylla var. flaccida Brand
  • Nemophila heterophylla var. nemorensis (Eastw.) Jeps.
  • Nemophila heterophylla var. tenera (Eastw.) A.Nelson & J.F.Macbr.
  • Nemophila hispida Eastw.
  • Nemophila inaequalis Eastw.
  • Nemophila nemorensis var. glauca Brand
  • Nemophila nemorensis var. gracilis Brand
  • Nemophila tenera Eastw.
  • Viticella heterophylla (Fisch. & C.A.Mey.) J.F.Macbr.
  • Viticella heterophylla var. flaccida (Brand) J.F.Macbr.
  • Viticella heterophylla var. tenera A.Nelson & J.F.Macbr.

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.