Asparagus verticillatusL.

WFO wfo-0000635448 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Asparagus verticillatus, photographed by Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky)
fig. a Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky), CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205766205
Asparagus verticillatus, photographed by Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky)
fig. b Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 164255624
Asparagus verticillatus, photographed by Galyna Mykytynets
fig. c Galyna Mykytynets, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 146312596
Asparagus verticillatus, photographed by Виктория Билоус
fig. d Виктория Билоус, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 142948960
Asparagus verticillatus, photographed by Galyna Mykytynets
fig. e Galyna Mykytynets, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 118237936
Asparagus verticillatus, photographed by Сергей Крыленко
fig. f Сергей Крыленко, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 76151141
Asparagus verticillatus, photographed by Galyna Mykytynets
fig. g Galyna Mykytynets, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115787454
Asparagus verticillatus, photographed by Galyna Mykytynets
fig. h Galyna Mykytynets, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177015342

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Native range 14 botanical countries

Regions where Asparagus verticillatus is native: Iran, Iraq, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Bulgaria, Greece, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania, South European Russia, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine IranIraqNorth CaucasusTranscaucasusTürkiyeTurkmenistanBulgariaGreeceKrymNW. Balkan Pen.RomaniaSouth European RussiaTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine
Native distribution of Asparagus verticillatus, 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
Bulgaria BUL EUROPE
Greece GRC
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
Iran IRN ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iraq IRQ
North Caucasus NCS
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Turkmenistan TKM

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 962 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -6.2 °C -0.6 °C 1.3 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 24.0 °C 26.3 °C 28.6 °C
Annual rainfall 444 mm 670 mm 964 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 76 mm 130 mm 190 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 962 research-grade observations of Asparagus verticillatus that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 6 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 buxbaumius Gueldenst. ex Ledeb.
  • Asparagus scandens Gueldenst. ex Ledeb.
  • Asparagus tricarinatus K.Koch
  • Asparagus verticillaris Lam.
  • Asparagus verticillatus subsp. floribundus (Baker) K.Richt.
  • Asparagus verticillatus var. floribundus Baker

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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.