Eriodictyon crassifoliumBenth.

Thick-leaved Yerba Santa

WFO wfo-0000674374 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Eriodictyon crassifolium, photographed by Amthinkia
fig. a Amthinkia, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-02 / obs. 203212323

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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 = 744 observations

Flowering observations of Eriodictyon crassifolium by month
MonthObservations
Jan6
Feb23
Mar139
Apr264
May216
Jun84
Jul10
Aug1
Sep1
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

Peak flowering in Apr, from 744 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.

  • Eriodictyon crassifolium subsp. benthamianum Brand
  • Eriodictyon crassifolium subsp. grayanum Brand
  • Eriodictyon crassifolium var. crassifolium
  • Eriodictyon crassifolium var. denudatum Abrams
  • Eriodictyon crassifolium var. nigrescens Brand
  • Eriodictyon crassifolium var. niveum Brand
  • Eriodictyon crassifolium var. typica Brand

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.