Daphne alpinaL.

WFO wfo-0000637443 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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.

Daphne alpina, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. a Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-06-08 / obs. 41344445
Daphne alpina, photographed by Mirko Ubović
fig. b Mirko Ubović, CC0 1.0 / obs. 45538804
Daphne alpina, photographed by Mirko Ubović
fig. c Mirko Ubović, CC0 1.0 / obs. 45538891
Daphne alpina, photographed by Bastien Alegot
fig. d Bastien Alegot, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136257541
Daphne alpina, photographed by Mirko Ubović
fig. e Mirko Ubović, CC0 1.0 / obs. 45538986
Daphne alpina, photographed by Bastien Alegot
fig. f Bastien Alegot, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136257565
Daphne alpina, photographed by Mirko Ubović
fig. g Mirko Ubović, CC0 1.0 / obs. 45538948

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Daphne alpina is native: Austria, Bulgaria, France, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Switzerland AustriaBulgariaFranceItalyNW. Balkan Pen.Switzerland
Native distribution of Daphne alpina, 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
France FRA
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
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.

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.

  • Daphne alpina var. petiolata Keissl.
  • Daphne candida Vitman
  • Daphne pubescens Röhl.
  • Daphne scopoliana (Urbani) Landolt
  • Thymelaea alpina (L.) All.
  • Thymelaea candida Scop.

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.