Verbesina encelioides(Cav.) A.Gray

cowpen daisy

WFO wfo-0000043888 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Verbesina encelioides, photographed by Kevin Faccenda
fig. a Kevin Faccenda, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-03 / obs. 204061754
Verbesina encelioides, photographed by Center for Urban Ecology
fig. b Center for Urban Ecology, CC0 1.0 / obs. 195394345
Verbesina encelioides, photographed by Don Loarie
fig. c Don Loarie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203743664
Verbesina encelioides, photographed by Center for Urban Ecology
fig. d Center for Urban Ecology, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197059411
Verbesina encelioides, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 193819968
Verbesina encelioides, photographed by Center for Urban Ecology
fig. f Center for Urban Ecology, CC0 1.0 / obs. 194424936
Verbesina encelioides, photographed by Annika Lindqvist
fig. g Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195054679
Verbesina encelioides, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 193822091

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Flowering n = 4,001 observations

Peak flowering in Oct, from 4,001 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 16 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.

  • Encelia albescens A.Gray
  • Verbesina australis Baker
  • Verbesina encelioides subsp. encelioides
  • Verbesina encelioides subsp. exauriculata (B.L.Rob. & Greenm.) J.R.Coleman
  • Verbesina encelioides var. cana B.L.Rob. & Greenm.
  • Verbesina encelioides var. exauriculata B.L.Rob. & Greenm.
  • Verbesina exauriculata (B.L.Rob. & Greenm.) Cockerell
  • Verbesina microptera (DC.) Herter
  • Verbesina scabra Phil.
  • Ximenesia australis Hook. & Arn. ex DC.
  • Ximenesia encelioides Cav.
  • Ximenesia encelioides var. encelioides
  • Ximenesia encelioides var. hortensis DC.
  • Ximenesia encelioides var. oblongifolia DC.
  • Ximenesia encelioides var. pachyptera DC.
  • Ximenesia exauriculata (B.L.Rob. & Greenm.) Rydb.

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.