Smallanthus uvedalia (bear's foot)

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Smallanthus uvedalia, photographed by Becky Dill — fig. a Becky Dill, CC0 1.0 / 2022-03-03 / obs. 181449276

Smallanthus uvedalia, photographed by David Ratledge — fig. b David Ratledge, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186644498

Smallanthus uvedalia, photographed by Lauren Gillett — fig. c Lauren Gillett, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176313148

Smallanthus uvedalia, photographed by kcthetc1 — fig. d kcthetc1, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197978129

Smallanthus uvedalia, photographed by Troi Perkins — fig. e Troi Perkins, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166465554

Smallanthus uvedalia, photographed by Tom Field — fig. g Tom Field, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162893846

Smallanthus uvedalia, photographed by Allen Browne — fig. h Allen Browne, CC0 1.0 / obs. 160298165

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Flowering n = 702 observations

196

234

123

Flowering observations of Smallanthus uvedalia by month
Month	Observations
Jan	3
Feb	4
Mar	1
Apr	1
May	20
Jun	82
Jul	196
Aug	234
Sep	123
Oct	32
Nov	6
Dec	0

Peak flowering in Aug, from 702 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 6 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.

Osteospermum uvedalia L.
Polymnia uvedalia (L.) L.
Polymnia uvedalia var. densipilis S.F.Blake
Polymnia uvedalia var. floridana S.F.Blake
Polymnia uvedalia var. uvedalia
Polymniastrum uvedalia (L.) Small

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
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.