Serenoa repens(W.Bartram) Small

saw palmetto

WFO wfo-0000309573 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Serenoa repens, photographed by Lauren McLaurin
fig. a Lauren McLaurin, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-17 / obs. 198455864
Serenoa repens, photographed by Leila Dasher
fig. b Leila Dasher, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196676345
Serenoa repens, photographed by Ben Machado
fig. c Ben Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193074564
Serenoa repens, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. d Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190519559
Serenoa repens, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. e Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190489881
Serenoa repens, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. f Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190519865
Serenoa repens, photographed by Tom Lazar
fig. g Tom Lazar, CC0 1.0 / obs. 198507091
Serenoa repens, photographed by Tom Lazar
fig. h Tom Lazar, CC0 1.0 / obs. 198505925

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Flowering n = 229 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 229 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.

  • Brahea serrulata (Michx.) H.Wendl.
  • Chamaerops serrulata Michx.
  • Corypha obliqua W.Bartram
  • Corypha repens W.Bartram
  • Diglossophyllum serrulatum (Michx.) H.Wendl. ex Drude
  • Diglossophyllum serrulatum (Michx.) Schaedtler
  • Diglossophyllum serrulatum (Michx.) H.Wendl. ex Salomon
  • Sabal serrulata (Michx.) Schult.f.
  • Serenoa repens f. glauca Moldenke
  • Serenoa serrulata (Michx.) Hook.f.
  • Serenoa serrulata (Michx.) G.Nicholson

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.