Sarcodes sanguineaTorr.

Snowplant

WFO wfo-0001128945 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Sarcodes sanguinea, photographed by velodrome
fig. a velodrome, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-29 / obs. 201747143
Sarcodes sanguinea, photographed by Trevor Van Loon
fig. b Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198276217
Sarcodes sanguinea, photographed by Jonathan Curley
fig. c Jonathan Curley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203324215
Sarcodes sanguinea, photographed by Max Mirel
fig. d Max Mirel, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204554877
Sarcodes sanguinea, photographed by Kimball Garrett
fig. e Kimball Garrett, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203039655
Sarcodes sanguinea, photographed by Sorrel
fig. f Sorrel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198873702
Sarcodes sanguinea, photographed by Garth Harwood
fig. g Garth Harwood, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202859255
Sarcodes sanguinea, photographed by velodrome
fig. h velodrome, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201746976

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Flowering n = 1,280 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 1,280 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 2 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.

  • Pterosporopsis sanguinea (Torr.) Kuntze
  • Pterosporopsis sonoraensis Kellogg ex Curran

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.