Uropappus lindleyi(DC.) Nutt.

silverpuffs

WFO wfo-0000020914 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Uropappus lindleyi, photographed by Cricket Raspet
fig. a Cricket Raspet, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-14 / obs. 198412417
Uropappus lindleyi, photographed by Marc Whitaker
fig. b Marc Whitaker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200356623
Uropappus lindleyi, photographed by James C. Davis
fig. c James C. Davis, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 188867488
Uropappus lindleyi, photographed by Andrew Meeds
fig. d Andrew Meeds, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190802084
Uropappus lindleyi, photographed by Millie Basden
fig. e Millie Basden, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187180541
Uropappus lindleyi, photographed by Lori Brandt Dudzik
fig. f Lori Brandt Dudzik, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 191935609
Uropappus lindleyi, photographed by Donald Lewis
fig. g Donald Lewis, CC0 1.0 / obs. 189742944
Uropappus lindleyi, photographed by Dan Horowitz
fig. h Dan Horowitz, CC0 1.0 / obs. 192599370

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Flowering n = 788 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 788 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 13 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.

  • Calais lindleyi DC.
  • Calais linearifolia DC.
  • Calais macrochaeta A.Gray
  • Microseris anomala S.Watson
  • Microseris lindleyi var. lindleyi
  • Microseris linearifolia (Nutt.) A.Gray
  • Microseris nevadensis Gand.
  • Uropappus grandiflorus Nutt.
  • Uropappus lindleyi var. lindleyi
  • Uropappus linearifolius var. elatus Greene
  • Uropappus linearifolius var. linearifolius
  • Uropappus macrochaetus var. macrochaetus
  • Uropappus pruinosus Greene

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.