Dichelostemma congestum(Sm.) Kunth

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WFO wfo-0000765269 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Dichelostemma congestum, photographed by Arvel Hernandez
fig. a Arvel Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-25 / obs. 200894417
Dichelostemma congestum, photographed by Arvel Hernandez
fig. b Arvel Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200894845
Dichelostemma congestum, photographed by Chuck Wilson
fig. c Chuck Wilson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 198796946
Dichelostemma congestum, photographed by Casey H. Richart
fig. d Casey H. Richart, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205799356
Dichelostemma congestum, photographed by Cricket Raspet
fig. e Cricket Raspet, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204833278
Dichelostemma congestum, photographed by Chuck Wilson
fig. f Chuck Wilson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 198560605
Dichelostemma congestum, photographed by joergmlpts
fig. g joergmlpts, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196416580
Dichelostemma congestum, photographed by joergmlpts
fig. h joergmlpts, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194077016

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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 = 3,270 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 3,270 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.

  • Brodiaea congesta Sm.
  • Brodiaea pulchella Greene
  • Dichelostemma pulchellum (Salisb.) A.Heller
  • Dipterostemon pulchellus (Salisb.) Rydb.
  • Hookera congesta (Sm.) Jeps.
  • Hookera pulchella Salisb.

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.