Plagiobothrys bracteatus(Howell) I.M.Johnst.

bracted popcornflower

WFO wfo-0001215370 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 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.

Plagiobothrys bracteatus, photographed by Ken-ichi Ueda
fig. a Ken-ichi Ueda, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-07 / obs. 196457141
Plagiobothrys bracteatus, photographed by Konshau Duman
fig. b Konshau Duman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187340366
Plagiobothrys bracteatus, photographed by Ken-ichi Ueda
fig. c Ken-ichi Ueda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202717356
Plagiobothrys bracteatus, photographed by Ken-ichi Ueda
fig. d Ken-ichi Ueda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202053731
Plagiobothrys bracteatus, photographed by Konshau Duman
fig. e Konshau Duman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187340621
Plagiobothrys bracteatus, photographed by Konshau Duman
fig. f Konshau Duman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187340341
Plagiobothrys bracteatus, photographed by Konshau Duman
fig. g Konshau Duman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187340642
Plagiobothrys bracteatus, photographed by Ken-ichi Ueda
fig. h Ken-ichi Ueda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195817621

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Plagiobothrys bracteatus is native: California, Mexico Northwest, Oregon CaliforniaMexico NorthwestOregon
Native distribution of Plagiobothrys bracteatus, 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
Mexico Northwest MXN
Oregon ORE

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 11 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.

  • Allocarya aculeolata Piper
  • Allocarya bracteata Howell
  • Allocarya charaxata var. debilis Brand
  • Allocarya commixta Brand
  • Allocarya conjuncta Piper
  • Allocarya cusickii var. debilis (Brand) Jeps.
  • Allocarya cusickii var. vallicola Jeps.
  • Allocarya debilis (Brand) Greene ex Brand
  • Allocarya leibergii Piper
  • Allocarya piperi Brand
  • Plagiobothrys bracteatus var. aculeolatus (Piper) I.M.Johnst.

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.