Arbutus xalapensisKunth

Texas madrone

WFO wfo-0000543212 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Arbutus xalapensis, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. a Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-16 / obs. 199877122
Arbutus xalapensis, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. b Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185917196
Arbutus xalapensis, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. c Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199874439
Arbutus xalapensis, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. d Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199879867
Arbutus xalapensis, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. e Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186811817
Arbutus xalapensis, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. f Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203867693
Arbutus xalapensis, photographed by Rachel Stringham
fig. g Rachel Stringham, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184592479
Arbutus xalapensis, photographed by Rachel Stringham
fig. h Rachel Stringham, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184590524

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 262 observations

Peak flowering in Mar, from 262 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 24 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.

  • Arbutus densiflora Benth.
  • Arbutus densiflora Kunth
  • Arbutus densiflora var. petiolaris (Kunth) Loes.
  • Arbutus donnell-smithii Small
  • Arbutus floribunda M.Martens & Galeotti
  • Arbutus glandulosa M.Martens & Galeotti
  • Arbutus laurifolia Lindl.
  • Arbutus laurina M.Martens & Galeotti
  • Arbutus macrophylla M.Martens & Galeotti
  • Arbutus mollis Kunth
  • Arbutus paniculata M.Martens & Galeotti
  • Arbutus peninsularis Rose & Goldman
  • Arbutus petiolaris Kunth
  • Arbutus prunifolia Klotzsch
  • Arbutus rubescens Bertol.
  • Arbutus texana Buckley
  • Arbutus varians Benth.
  • Arbutus villosa Willd. ex Klotzsch
  • Arbutus xalapensis subsp. texana (Buckley) A.E.Murray
  • Arbutus xalapensis var. pubescens Benth.
  • Arbutus xalapensis var. texana A.Gray
  • Arctostaphylos rubescens (Bertol.) Hemsl.
  • Comarostaphylis glauca Buckley
  • Comarostaphylis rubescens (Bertol.) Klotzsch

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.