Lepidospartum squamatum (California Broomsage)

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Lepidospartum squamatum, photographed by velodrome — fig. a velodrome, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-08 / obs. 204683889

Lepidospartum squamatum, photographed by Madeleine Claire — fig. b Madeleine Claire, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203603528

Lepidospartum squamatum, photographed by Alix Kosmala — fig. c Alix Kosmala, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204486673

Lepidospartum squamatum, photographed by Diego Blanco — fig. d Diego Blanco, CC0 1.0 / obs. 173275316

Lepidospartum squamatum, photographed by TonyT — fig. e TonyT, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173565996

Lepidospartum squamatum, photographed by Henrik Kibak — fig. f Henrik Kibak, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172838522

Lepidospartum squamatum, photographed by Caleb Catto — fig. h Caleb Catto, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170438541

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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.

Ericameria nauseosathis one called it 10x compare

Flowering n = 615 observations

112

127

114

Flowering observations of Lepidospartum squamatum by month
Month	Observations
Jan	24
Feb	9
Mar	7
Apr	8
May	8
Jun	15
Jul	45
Aug	85
Sep	112
Oct	127
Nov	114
Dec	61

Peak flowering in Oct, from 615 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.

Carphephorus junceus Durand
Lepidospartum squamatum var. palmeri (A.Gray) L.C.Wheeler
Lepidospartum squamatum var. squamatum
Linosyris squamata A.Gray
Linosyris squamata var. squamata
Tetradymia squamata (A.Gray) A.Gray
Tetradymia squamata var. squamata

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
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.