Aegilops geniculataRoth

ovate goatgrass

WFO wfo-0000841692 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Aegilops geniculata, photographed by David Delon
fig. a David Delon, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-27 / obs. 202782482
Aegilops geniculata, photographed by scolym
fig. b scolym, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199185832
Aegilops geniculata, photographed by Quentin Groom
fig. c Quentin Groom, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197466110
Aegilops geniculata, photographed by Tim Johnson
fig. d Tim Johnson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197550025
Aegilops geniculata, photographed by Marc Riera
fig. e Marc Riera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195548025
Aegilops geniculata, photographed by Tim Johnson
fig. f Tim Johnson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 138410434
Aegilops geniculata, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. g Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 116985574
Aegilops geniculata, photographed by Fabien Piednoir
fig. h Fabien Piednoir, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 80629430

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Native range 31 botanical countries

Regions where Aegilops geniculata is native: Algeria, Canary Is., Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Afghanistan, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Iran, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Sinai, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Baleares, Bulgaria, Corse, France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe AlgeriaEgyptLibyaMoroccoTunisiaAfghanistanCyprusEast Aegean Is.IranLebanon-SyriaPalestineSinaiTranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaBulgariaCorseFranceGreeceItalyKritiKrymNW. Balkan Pen.PortugalRomaniaSiciliaSpainTürkiye-in-Europe Canary Is.BalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Aegilops geniculata, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Baleares BAL
Bulgaria BUL
Corse COR
France FRA
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Portugal POR
Romania ROM
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
Cyprus CYP
East Aegean Is. EAI
Iran IRN
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Palestine PAL
Sinai SIN
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Canary Is. CNY
Egypt EGY
Libya LBY
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 53 in flower of 77 examined

Peak flowering in Apr. Each bar is the share of Aegilops geniculata observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 53 of 77 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 9 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 50 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.

  • Aegilops altera Lam. ex Roth
  • Aegilops brachyathera Pomel
  • Aegilops divaricata Jord. & Fourr.
  • Aegilops echinus Godr.
  • Aegilops erigens Jord. & Fourr.
  • Aegilops erratica Jord. & Fourr.
  • Aegilops fonsii Sennen
  • Aegilops geniculata subsp. gibberosa (Zhuk.) K.Hammer
  • Aegilops geniculata subsp. globulosa (Zhuk.) Á.Löve
  • Aegilops geniculata var. africana (Eig) H.Scholz
  • Aegilops geniculata var. brachyathera (Pomel) K.Hammer
  • Aegilops geniculata var. echinus (Godr.) K.Hammer
  • Aegilops geniculata var. eventricosa (Eig) K.Hammer
  • Aegilops geniculata var. hirsuta (Eig) Tzvelev
  • Aegilops geniculata var. lanuginosa (Zhuk.) K.Hammer
  • Aegilops geniculata var. puberula (Zhuk.) K.Hammer
  • Aegilops microstachys Jord. & Fourr.
  • Aegilops nigricans Jord. & Fourr.
  • Aegilops ovata subsp. atlantica Eig
  • Aegilops ovata subsp. brachyathera (Pomel) Chennav.
  • Aegilops ovata subsp. gibberosa Zhuk.
  • Aegilops ovata subsp. globulosa Zhuk.
  • Aegilops ovata subsp. planiuscula Zhuk.
  • Aegilops ovata subsp. umbonata Zhuk.

and 26 more.

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.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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