Campanulaceae
Elegant calicoflower
Downingia elegans
- Family
- Campanulaceae
- Genus
- Downingia
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Common names
By language (4)
- Arabic
- دونيجة أنيقة
- English
- Elegant calicoflower
- Russian
- Доунингия изящная
- Welsh
- Bidoglys Califfornia
Synonyms
- Bolelia elegans (Douglas ex Lindl.) Greene
- Clintonia corymbosa A.DC.
- Clintonia elegans Douglas ex Lindl.
- Downingia brachypetala Gand.
- Downingia corymbosa A.Nelson & J.F.Macbr.
- Downingia elegans f. rosea H.St.John
- Downingia elegans var. brachypetala (Gand.) McVaugh
- Downingia elegans var. corymbosa (DC.) A.Gray
- Downingia elegans var. elegans
- Gynampsis flexuosa Raf.
- Lobelia douglasii Alph.Wood
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Annual
- In the US and Canada
- Canada: native, Lower 48 states: native
Photos
Photo: Motohiro Sunouchi, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Jennifer Wheeler, BLM Arcata, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Motohiro Sunouchi, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Motohiro Sunouchi, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Motohiro Sunouchi, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Motohiro Sunouchi, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Motohiro Sunouchi, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Motohiro Sunouchi, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Alex Abair, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Alex Abair, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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- Dwarf calicoflowerDowningia pusillaCampanulaceae
- Great Basin calicoflowerDowningia laetaCampanulaceae
- Sierra calicoflowerDowningia montanaCampanulaceae
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- Toothed calicoflowerDowningia cuspidataCampanulaceae
Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.