Condea emoryi(Torr.) Harley & J.F.B.Pastore

desert lavender

WFO wfo-0001333568 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Condea emoryi, photographed by velodrome
fig. a velodrome, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-13 / obs. 201783098
Condea emoryi, photographed by Cricket Raspet
fig. b Cricket Raspet, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188444758
Condea emoryi, photographed by Andrew Meeds
fig. c Andrew Meeds, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193720928
Condea emoryi, photographed by Norma Piedra
fig. d Norma Piedra, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185736917
Condea emoryi, photographed by Mike Dechter
fig. e Mike Dechter, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183638599
Condea emoryi, photographed by velodrome
fig. f velodrome, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204328621
Condea emoryi, photographed by Marc Whitaker
fig. g Marc Whitaker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182731716
Condea emoryi, photographed by velodrome
fig. h velodrome, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204328432

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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 = 2,793 observations

Peak flowering in Mar, from 2,793 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 6 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.

  • Hyptis emoryi Torr.
  • Hyptis emoryi var. amplifolia I.M.Johnst.
  • Hyptis emoryi var. palmeri (S.Watson) I.M.Johnst.
  • Hyptis palmeri S.Watson
  • Mesosphaerum emoryi (Torr.) Kuntze
  • Mesosphaerum palmeri (S.Watson) Goldman

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.