Veratrum californicumDurand

Corn Lily

WFO wfo-0000751689 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Veratrum californicum, photographed by Kimball Garrett
fig. a Kimball Garrett, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-03 / obs. 203041131
Veratrum californicum, photographed by Alan Rockefeller
fig. b Alan Rockefeller, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201994176
Veratrum californicum, photographed by Vincent Weber
fig. c Vincent Weber, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 201664406
Veratrum californicum, photographed by Arvel Hernandez
fig. d Arvel Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201361973
Veratrum californicum, photographed by Christine Braaten
fig. e Christine Braaten, CC0 1.0 / obs. 157662623
Veratrum californicum, photographed by Diego Blanco
fig. f Diego Blanco, CC0 1.0 / obs. 156175145
Veratrum californicum, photographed by Justin Paulin
fig. g Justin Paulin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152203423
Veratrum californicum, photographed by Matt Lavin
fig. h Matt Lavin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173012536

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Flowering n = 668 observations

Peak flowering in Jul, from 668 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 7 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.

  • Veratrum album var. californicum Wawra
  • Veratrum caudatum A.Heller
  • Veratrum caudatum var. tenuipetaloides O.Loes.
  • Veratrum eschcholtzii var. watsonii Baker
  • Veratrum jonesii A.Heller
  • Veratrum speciosum Rydb.
  • Veratrum tenuipetalum A.Heller

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.