Layia platyglossa(Fisch. & C.A.Mey.) A.Gray

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WFO wfo-0000079296 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Layia platyglossa, photographed by Alexander Wentworth
fig. a Alexander Wentworth, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-09 / obs. 196363460
Layia platyglossa, photographed by Garth Harwood
fig. b Garth Harwood, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196139914
Layia platyglossa, photographed by Cricket Raspet
fig. c Cricket Raspet, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202891465
Layia platyglossa, photographed by Annette Herz
fig. d Annette Herz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190262197
Layia platyglossa, photographed by Cricket Raspet
fig. e Cricket Raspet, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202117661
Layia platyglossa, photographed by Cricket Raspet
fig. f Cricket Raspet, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200409983
Layia platyglossa, photographed by gretchenparadis
fig. g gretchenparadis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187795428
Layia platyglossa, photographed by Chuck Wilson
fig. h Chuck Wilson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 187232960

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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 = 3,211 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 3,211 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 12 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.

  • Blepharipappus elegans (Nutt.) Greene
  • Blepharipappus platyglossus (Fisch. & C.A.Mey.) Greene
  • Callichroa angustifolia Walp.
  • Callichroa hirsuta Walp.
  • Callichroa platyglossa Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
  • Layia elegans (Nutt.) Torr. & A.Gray
  • Layia platyglossa subsp. campestris D.D.Keck
  • Layia platyglossa subsp. platyglossa
  • Layia platyglossa var. breviseta A.Gray
  • Layia platyglossa var. platyglossa
  • Layia ziegleri Munz
  • Madaroglossa elegans Nutt.

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.