Bupleurum ranunculoidesL.

WFO wfo-0000575711 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Bupleurum ranunculoides, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. a Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-08-20 / obs. 91059214
Bupleurum ranunculoides, photographed by Wolfgang Jauch
fig. b Wolfgang Jauch, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 27214954
Bupleurum ranunculoides, photographed by desertnaturalist
fig. c desertnaturalist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 20745385
Bupleurum ranunculoides, photographed by Denys Vynokurov
fig. d Denys Vynokurov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165450927
Bupleurum ranunculoides, photographed by Denys Vynokurov
fig. e Denys Vynokurov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150989842
Bupleurum ranunculoides, photographed by Niels Raes
fig. f Niels Raes, CC0 1.0 / obs. 150433083
Bupleurum ranunculoides, photographed by pavlaki1968
fig. g pavlaki1968, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 147600170
Bupleurum ranunculoides, photographed by aroche
fig. h aroche, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 12728831

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Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Bupleurum ranunculoides is native: Austria, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Germany, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Spain, Switzerland AustriaBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGermanyItalyNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSpainSwitzerland
Native distribution of Bupleurum ranunculoides, 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
Austria AUT EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Germany GER
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI

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 50 in flower of 51 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Bupleurum ranunculoides 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. 50 of 51 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 71 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.

  • Bupleurum angulosum var. gramineum (Vill.) Spreng.
  • Bupleurum aricense Timb.-Lagr.
  • Bupleurum baldense Host
  • Bupleurum brasianum Timb.-Lagr.
  • Bupleurum burserianum Willd.
  • Bupleurum canalense Wulfen ex Spreng.
  • Bupleurum caricifolium Willd.
  • Bupleurum caricinum Rchb.
  • Bupleurum falcatum subsp. gramineum (Vill.) Bonnier & Layens
  • Bupleurum falcatum var. baldense (Host) Rouy & E.G.Camus
  • Bupleurum gramineum Vill.
  • Bupleurum laricense Gaut. & Timb.-Lagr.
  • Bupleurum obtusatum Lapeyr.
  • Bupleurum obtusatum var. caricifolium Timb.-Lagr.
  • Bupleurum perrieri Bréb.
  • Bupleurum provinciale A.Huet ex Timb.-Lagr.
  • Bupleurum ramosum Gaut. ex Timb.-Lagr.
  • Bupleurum ranunculiformis St.-Lag.
  • Bupleurum ranunculoides f. actinoideum Briq.
  • Bupleurum ranunculoides f. actinoideum (Briq.) H.Wolff
  • Bupleurum ranunculoides f. canalense (Wulf ex Spreng.) H.Wolff
  • Bupleurum ranunculoides f. exiguum (Timb.-Lagr.) H.Wolff
  • Bupleurum ranunculoides f. majus H.Wolff
  • Bupleurum ranunculoides f. obtusatum (Lapeyr.) Bolzon

and 47 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. 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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