Parkinsonia florida(Benth. ex A.Gray) S.Watson

blue palo verde

WFO wfo-0000181683 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Parkinsonia florida, photographed by paulexcoff
fig. a paulexcoff, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-04-17 / obs. 189368858
Parkinsonia florida, photographed by Zoltán Stekkelpak
fig. b Zoltán Stekkelpak, CC0 1.0 / obs. 179332947
Parkinsonia florida, photographed by Leah Gardner
fig. c Leah Gardner, CC0 1.0 / obs. 185430711
Parkinsonia florida, photographed by Diana
fig. d Diana, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178652452
Parkinsonia florida, photographed by lejones417
fig. e lejones417, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 189359735
Parkinsonia florida, photographed by Alix Kosmala
fig. f Alix Kosmala, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204197327
Parkinsonia florida, photographed by Craig Martin
fig. g Craig Martin, CC0 1.0 / obs. 180361477
Parkinsonia florida, photographed by Amy
fig. h Amy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182808862

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.

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 = 1,081 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 1,081 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 6 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.

  • Cercidium floridum Benth. ex A.Gray
  • Cercidium floridum Torr.
  • Cercidium floridum subsp. peninsulare (Rose) Carter
  • Cercidium peninsulare Rose
  • Cercidium torreyanum (S.Watson) Sarg.
  • Parkinsonia torreyana S.Watson

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.