Scrophularia californicaCham. & Schltdl.

California beeplant

WFO wfo-0001137173 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Scrophularia californica, photographed by Randal
fig. a Randal, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 205168793
Scrophularia californica, photographed by Jeremiah Degenhardt
fig. b Jeremiah Degenhardt, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199380133
Scrophularia californica, photographed by Jonathan Curley
fig. c Jonathan Curley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201689676
Scrophularia californica, photographed by joergmlpts
fig. d joergmlpts, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198974064
Scrophularia californica, photographed by Chuck Wilson
fig. e Chuck Wilson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205056400
Scrophularia californica, photographed by Chuck Wilson
fig. f Chuck Wilson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 196641407
Scrophularia californica, photographed by joergmlpts
fig. g joergmlpts, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198253169
Scrophularia californica, photographed by velodrome
fig. h velodrome, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197677016

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 2,017 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 2,017 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 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.

  • Scrophularia californica subsp. californica
  • Scrophularia californica subsp. floribunda (Greene) R.J.Shaw
  • Scrophularia californica var. californica
  • Scrophularia californica var. catalina Jeps.
  • Scrophularia californica var. floribunda Greene
  • Scrophularia californica var. laciniata Jeps.
  • Scrophularia californica var. oregana (Pennell) Cronquist
  • Scrophularia floribunda (Greene) A.Heller
  • Scrophularia multiflora Pennell
  • Scrophularia nodosa var. californica (Cham. & Schltdl.) Benth.
  • Scrophularia oregana Pennell

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.