Daphne laureolaL.

Spurge-laurel

WFO wfo-0000637701 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Daphne laureola, photographed by Michelle Norcéide
fig. a Michelle Norcéide, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-04 / obs. 194925236
Daphne laureola, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. b Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205217703
Daphne laureola, photographed by Piermario Maculan
fig. c Piermario Maculan, CC0 1.0 / obs. 194739853
Daphne laureola, photographed by Erin Springinotic
fig. d Erin Springinotic, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202069155
Daphne laureola, photographed by Michelle Norcéide
fig. e Michelle Norcéide, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195017233
Daphne laureola, photographed by Felicia Seichter
fig. f Felicia Seichter, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196035052
Daphne laureola, photographed by humon
fig. g humon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197711764
Daphne laureola, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. h Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195873264

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 849 observations

Peak flowering in Mar, from 849 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 18 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 arvernensis Gand.
  • Daphne cantabrica Willk.
  • Daphne kabylica Chabert
  • Daphne laureola prol. philippi (Gren.) Rouy
  • Daphne laureola subsp. latifolia (Coss.) Rivas Mart.
  • Daphne laureola var. cantabrica (Willk.) Willk.
  • Daphne laureola var. hosmariensis Ball
  • Daphne laureola var. latifolia Coss.
  • Daphne laureola var. philippi (Gren.) Meisn.
  • Daphne laureola var. punctulata Halácsy
  • Daphne major Lam.
  • Daphne multiflora Thore ex Rchb.
  • Daphne philippii Gren.
  • Daphne pycnophylla Gand.
  • Daphne sempervirens Salisb.
  • Laureola mas Garsault
  • Laureola sempervirens Fourr.
  • Thymelaea laureola (L.) 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.

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.