Pyrrhopappus pauciflorus(D.Don) DC.

smallflower desert-chicory

WFO wfo-0000090523 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Pyrrhopappus pauciflorus, photographed by saltyhiker
fig. a saltyhiker, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205227979
Pyrrhopappus pauciflorus, photographed by Annika Lindqvist
fig. b Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205670527
Pyrrhopappus pauciflorus, photographed by Nathan May
fig. c Nathan May, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199097965
Pyrrhopappus pauciflorus, photographed by Annika Lindqvist
fig. d Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194836550
Pyrrhopappus pauciflorus, photographed by Nathan May
fig. e Nathan May, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199110096
Pyrrhopappus pauciflorus, photographed by Jay Pruett
fig. f Jay Pruett, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195042934
Pyrrhopappus pauciflorus, photographed by Vicki Miller
fig. g Vicki Miller, CC0 1.0 / obs. 188157057
Pyrrhopappus pauciflorus, photographed by Meghan Cassidy
fig. h Meghan Cassidy, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 195334143

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Flowering n = 706 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 706 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 10 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.

  • Chondrilla intybacea Ledeb.
  • Chondrilla pauciflora D.Don
  • Chondrilla sessaeana D.Don
  • Pyrrhopappus geiseri Shinners
  • Pyrrhopappus multicaulis DC.
  • Pyrrhopappus multicaulis var. multicaulis
  • Pyrrhopappus sessaeanus DC.
  • Sitilias multicaulis Greene
  • Sitilias pauciflora Greene
  • Sitilias sessaeana Greene

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.