Catananche arenariaCoss. & Durieu

WFO wfo-0000095559 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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.

Catananche arenaria, photographed by Olivier Argagnon
fig. a Olivier Argagnon, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-04-01 / obs. 64046259
Catananche arenaria, photographed by Olivier Argagnon
fig. b Olivier Argagnon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 64046223
Catananche arenaria, photographed by Olivier Argagnon
fig. c Olivier Argagnon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 64046250
Catananche arenaria, photographed by Olivier Argagnon
fig. d Olivier Argagnon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 64046258

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 3665711
Filed as
Catananche arenaria Coss. & Durieu
Det. by
Carrasco, M. A.
Collected
M. A. Carrasco, S. Castroviejo, S. Cirujano & M. Velayos 1989-04-21
Origin
MA
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Catananche arenaria is native: Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia, Western Sahara AlgeriaLibyaMauritaniaMoroccoTunisiaWestern Sahara
Native distribution of Catananche arenaria, 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
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Libya LBY
Mauritania MTN
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
Western Sahara WSA

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 4 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.

  • Catananche arenaria var. arenaria
  • Catananche arenaria var. atricha Murb.
  • Catananche arenaria var. aurea Maire
  • Catananche arenaria var. dimorpha Dobignard

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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