Stanleya pinnata(Pursh) Britton

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WFO wfo-0001216638 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Stanleya pinnata, photographed by Trevor Van Loon
fig. a Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-30 / obs. 193407260
Stanleya pinnata, photographed by Parker Hopkins
fig. b Parker Hopkins, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205957923
Stanleya pinnata, photographed by Kimball Garrett
fig. c Kimball Garrett, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197295594
Stanleya pinnata, photographed by Caleb Catto
fig. d Caleb Catto, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172996827
Stanleya pinnata, photographed by Matt Berger
fig. e Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182926840
Stanleya pinnata, photographed by Daniel S.
fig. f Daniel S., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173911299
Stanleya pinnata, photographed by Amy
fig. g Amy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182811318
Stanleya pinnata, photographed by Alexander Wentworth
fig. h Alexander Wentworth, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177693517

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Flowering n = 833 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 833 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 12 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.

  • Cleome pinnata Pursh
  • Stanleya arcuata Rydb.
  • Stanleya canescens Rydb.
  • Stanleya fruticosa Nutt.
  • Stanleya glauca Rydb.
  • Stanleya heterophylla Nutt.
  • Stanleya integrifolia E.James
  • Stanleya pinnata subsp. inyoensis Munz & J.C.Roos
  • Stanleya pinnata subsp. pinnata
  • Stanleya pinnata var. arcuata Beath, C.S.Gilbert & Eppson
  • Stanleya pinnata var. inyoensis (Munz & Roos) Reveal
  • Stanleya pinnatifida Nutt.

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.