Agrostis rupestrisAll.

WFO wfo-0000844342 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Agrostis rupestris, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. a Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / 2017-06-28 / obs. 74266430
Agrostis rupestris, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. b Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 74266451
Agrostis rupestris, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. c Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 74266440
Agrostis rupestris, photographed by Christina s.l.
fig. d Christina s.l., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 70988551

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Native range 17 botanical countries

Regions where Agrostis rupestris is native: Morocco, Transcaucasus, Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine MoroccoTranscaucasusAlbaniaAustriaBulgariaCorseCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGermanyGreeceItalyNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSpainSwitzerlandUkraine
Native distribution of Agrostis rupestris, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Bulgaria BUL
Corse COR
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR
Morocco MOR AFRICA
Transcaucasus TCS ASIA-TEMPERATE

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.

Also published as 23 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.

  • Agrestis rupestris (All.) Bubani
  • Agrostis alpina Lam.
  • Agrostis caespitosa Hoppe ex Steud.
  • Agrostis canina var. schultesii (Kunth) K.Richt.
  • Agrostis montis-aurei Delarbre ex Poir.
  • Agrostis perrieri Rouy
  • Agrostis pyrenaica Pourr.
  • Agrostis rupestris f. alpinoides Gamisans
  • Agrostis rupestris f. viridula (Beck) Beldie
  • Agrostis rupestris var. alpinoides (Gamisans) Portal
  • Agrostis rupestris var. atlantis Maire
  • Agrostis rupestris var. perrieri (Rouy) P.Fourn.
  • Agrostis rupestris var. planifolia Douin
  • Agrostis rupestris var. pyrenaica (Pourr.) Björkman
  • Agrostis rupestris var. viridula Beck
  • Agrostis schultesii Kunth
  • Agrostis setacea Vill.
  • Agrostis setifolia Brot.
  • Agrostis vidalii Sennen
  • Avena rupestris (All.) J.F.Gmel.
  • Trichodium alpinum Schrad.
  • Trichodium inconspicuum Kunze ex Steud.
  • Trichodium neglectum Schult.

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. 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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