Fouquieria splendensEngelm.

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WFO wfo-0000691669 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g

Fouquieria splendens, photographed by CK2AZ
fig. a CK2AZ, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-22 / obs. 199957365
Fouquieria splendens, photographed by Robert Webster
fig. b Robert Webster, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 200677524
Fouquieria splendens, photographed by Robert Webster
fig. c Robert Webster, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 200676779
Fouquieria splendens, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. d Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199873756
Fouquieria splendens, photographed by velodrome
fig. e velodrome, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202057136
Fouquieria splendens, photographed by Rachel Stringham
fig. f Rachel Stringham, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197645693
Fouquieria splendens, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. g Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199858875

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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 = 3,737 observations

Peak flowering in Mar, from 3,737 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.

  • Fouquieria campanulata Nash
  • Fouquieria spinosa Torr.
  • Fouquieria splendens f. albiflora Lodé
  • Fouquieria splendens f. micrantha Loes.
  • Fouquieria splendens var. albiflora Henrickson
  • Fouquieria splendens var. campanulata (Nash) Henrickson

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.