Plagiobothrys nothofulvus(A.Gray) A.Gray

rusty popcornflower

WFO wfo-0001215510 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Plagiobothrys nothofulvus, photographed by Nicholas Wei
fig. a Nicholas Wei, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-05-01 / obs. 193441504
Plagiobothrys nothofulvus, photographed by Mary K. Hanson
fig. b Mary K. Hanson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192352523
Plagiobothrys nothofulvus, photographed by Dominic Gentilcore
fig. c Dominic Gentilcore, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189742618
Plagiobothrys nothofulvus, photographed by Sean Haight
fig. d Sean Haight, CC0 1.0 / obs. 186832674
Plagiobothrys nothofulvus, photographed by Dennis Eckhart
fig. e Dennis Eckhart, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186311277
Plagiobothrys nothofulvus, photographed by Cricket Raspet
fig. f Cricket Raspet, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185460353
Plagiobothrys nothofulvus, photographed by Cricket Raspet
fig. g Cricket Raspet, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185462428
Plagiobothrys nothofulvus, photographed by Annette Herz
fig. h Annette Herz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185153637

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Plagiobothrys nothofulvus is native: California, Mexico Northwest, Nevada, Oregon, Washington CaliforniaMexico NorthwestNevadaOregonWashington
Native distribution of Plagiobothrys nothofulvus, 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
Nevada NEV
Oregon ORE
Washington WAS

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 503 in flower of 514 examined

Peak flowering in Feb. Each bar is the share of Plagiobothrys nothofulvus 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. 503 of 514 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 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 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.

  • Eritrichium nothofulvum A.Gray

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.

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