Pectocarya pusilla(A.DC.) A.Gray

little combseed

WFO wfo-0001215364 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Pectocarya pusilla, photographed by Matt Berger
fig. a Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-04-11 / obs. 66830794
Pectocarya pusilla, photographed by Trevor Van Loon
fig. b Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 122292321
Pectocarya pusilla, photographed by Andy Kleinhesselink
fig. c Andy Kleinhesselink, CC0 1.0 / obs. 16511969
Pectocarya pusilla, photographed by Andy Kleinhesselink
fig. d Andy Kleinhesselink, CC0 1.0 / obs. 16511964
Pectocarya pusilla, photographed by Matt Berger
fig. e Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 66854246
Pectocarya pusilla, photographed by Matt Berger
fig. f Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 65520506
Pectocarya pusilla, photographed by Matt Berger
fig. g Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 64717389
Pectocarya pusilla, photographed by Steve Matson
fig. h Steve Matson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189098739

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Pectocarya pusilla is native: California, Oregon, Washington, Chile Central CaliforniaOregonWashingtonChile Central
Native distribution of Pectocarya pusilla, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
California CAL NORTHERN AMERICA
Oregon ORE
Washington WAS
Chile Central CLC SOUTHERN AMERICA

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.

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.

  • Gruvelia pusilla A.DC.

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.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.