Pectocarya linearis (sagebrush combseed)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Pectocarya linearis, photographed by E Santos Ortega — fig. a E Santos Ortega, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-15 / obs. 188776083

Pectocarya linearis, photographed by James C. Davis — fig. b James C. Davis, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 183332386

Pectocarya linearis, photographed by Nicolás Lavandero — fig. c Nicolás Lavandero, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171722464

Pectocarya linearis, photographed by Cecilia Briceño — fig. d Cecilia Briceño, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 165190609

Pectocarya linearis, photographed by GREGORY ANTHONY PAUCA TANCO — fig. g GREGORY ANTHONY PAUCA TANCO, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 121188516

Pectocarya linearis, photographed by Amy — fig. h Amy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115154128

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.

Native range 10 botanical countries

Native distribution of Pectocarya linearis, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Argentina Northeast	AGE	SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina Northwest	AGW
Argentina South	AGS
Chile Central	CLC
Chile North	CLN
Ecuador	ECU
Peru	PER
California	CAL	NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexican Pacific Is.	MXI
Mexico Northwest	MXN

Not drawn on the map: Mexican Pacific Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 67 in flower of 86 examined

100%

68%

69%

100%

Proportion of examined Pectocarya linearis in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	0	too few examined
Feb	17	17	100%	82% to 100%
Mar	19	28	68%	49% to 82%
Apr	18	26	69%	50% to 84%
May	1	3	too few examined
Jun	0	0	too few examined
Jul	2	2	too few examined
Aug	3	3	too few examined
Sep	6	6	100%	61% to 100%
Oct	1	1	too few examined
Nov	0	0	too few examined
Dec	0	0	too few examined

Peak flowering in Feb. Each bar is the share of Pectocarya linearis 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. 67 of 86 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 8 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. 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 12 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.

Cynoglossum lateriflorum Lam.
Cynoglossum lateriflorum Aubr.
Cynoglossum lineare Ruiz & Pav.
Cynoglossum pilosum Ruiz & Pav.
Echinospermum gracile Lehm.
Ktenospermum linifolium Lehm.
Mattia lateriflorum G.Don
Mattia pilosa G.Don
Omphalodes lateriflora (Lam.) J.F.Macbr.
Rindera lateriflora Roem. & Schult.
Rindera pilosa Roem. & Schult.
Rochelia gracilis Roem. & Schult.

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.
USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol PELI. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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.