Asparagus officinalisL.

wild asparagus

WFO wfo-0000634022 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Asparagus officinalis, photographed by Violet T.
fig. a Violet T., CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-07 / obs. 204475101
Asparagus officinalis, photographed by Mark Apgar
fig. b Mark Apgar, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205223153
Asparagus officinalis, photographed by Grzegorz Grzejszczak
fig. c Grzegorz Grzejszczak, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 204833678
Asparagus officinalis, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. d Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203312091
Asparagus officinalis, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. e Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202751176
Asparagus officinalis, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. f Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202651257
Asparagus officinalis, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. g Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201622977
Asparagus officinalis, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. h Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202507554

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Flowering n = 315 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 315 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 30 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.

  • Asparagus altilis Asch.
  • Asparagus altilis subsp. oxycarpus (Steven) K.Richt.
  • Asparagus altilis subsp. polyphyllus (Steven ex Ledeb.) K.Richt.
  • Asparagus caspius Hohen.
  • Asparagus caspius Hort.Vind. ex Schult.f.
  • Asparagus collinus Schur
  • Asparagus esculentus Salisb.
  • Asparagus fiorii Sennen
  • Asparagus hedecarpus Andrz. ex Baker
  • Asparagus hortensis Mill. ex Baker
  • Asparagus littoralis Steven
  • Asparagus officinalis subsp. officinalis
  • Asparagus officinalis subsp. polyphyllus (Steven) Tzvelev
  • Asparagus officinalis var. altilis L.
  • Asparagus officinalis var. campestris Gren. & Godr.
  • Asparagus officinalis var. collinus Nyman
  • Asparagus officinalis var. oxycarpus (Steven) Nyman
  • Asparagus officinalis var. strictus Boiss.
  • Asparagus oxycarpus Steven
  • Asparagus paragus Gueldenst. ex Ledeb.
  • Asparagus polyphyllus Steven
  • Asparagus polyphyllus Steven ex Ledeb.
  • Asparagus sativus Mill.
  • Asparagus scaber var. littoralis (Steven) Nyman

and 6 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.

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.