Daphne oleoidesSchreb.

WFO wfo-0000637793 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 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 oleoides, photographed by Emanuele Santarelli
fig. a Emanuele Santarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-06-27 / obs. 139493165
Daphne oleoides, photographed by Santiago Martín-Bravo
fig. b Santiago Martín-Bravo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184557434
Daphne oleoides, photographed by Emanuele Santarelli
fig. c Emanuele Santarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 29292818
Daphne oleoides, photographed by Emanuele Santarelli
fig. d Emanuele Santarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 139493164
Daphne oleoides, photographed by Santiago Martín-Bravo
fig. e Santiago Martín-Bravo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184557421
Daphne oleoides, photographed by Emanuele Santarelli
fig. f Emanuele Santarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 29292838
Daphne oleoides, photographed by Michael D. Pirie
fig. g Michael D. Pirie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 50093309
Daphne oleoides, photographed by Peter de Lange
fig. h Peter de Lange, CC0 1.0 / obs. 4862749

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Native range 13 botanical countries

Regions where Daphne oleoides is native: Algeria, Lebanon-Syria, Türkiye, Albania, Bulgaria, Corse, Greece, Italy, Kriti, NW. Balkan Pen., Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain AlgeriaLebanon-SyriaTürkiyeAlbaniaBulgariaCorseGreeceItalyKritiNW. Balkan Pen.SiciliaSpain Sardegna
Native distribution of Daphne oleoides, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
Corse COR
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Lebanon-Syria LBS ASIA-TEMPERATE
Türkiye TUR
Algeria ALG AFRICA

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 42 in flower of 54 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Daphne oleoides 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. 42 of 54 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 8 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 27 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 buxifolia Vahl
  • Daphne buxifolia Sm.
  • Daphne caucasica M.Bieb.
  • Daphne euboica Rech.f.
  • Daphne glandulosa Bertol.
  • Daphne gnidioides Szov. ex Meisn.
  • Daphne hispanica Pau
  • Daphne hispanica var. granatensis Pau
  • Daphne jasminea Griseb.
  • Daphne lucida Loisel.
  • Daphne oleoides f. puberula (Jaub. & Spach) Keissl.
  • Daphne oleoides prol. glandulosa (Bertol.) Rouy
  • Daphne oleoides subsp. atlantica (Maire) Rivas Mart., Molero Mesa, Marfíl & G.Benítez
  • Daphne oleoides subsp. hispanica (Pau) Rivas Mart.
  • Daphne oleoides subsp. oleoides
  • Daphne oleoides var. atlantica Maire
  • Daphne oleoides var. brachyloba Meisn.
  • Daphne oleoides var. buxifolia (Vahl) Keissl.
  • Daphne oleoides var. glandulosa (Bertol.) Keissl.
  • Daphne oleoides var. granatensis (Pau) Font Quer
  • Daphne oleoides var. hispanica (Pau) Cuatrec.
  • Daphne oleoides var. jasminea Lázaro Ibiza
  • Daphne oleoides var. oleoides
  • Daphne oleoides var. puberula Jaub. & Spach

and 3 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.

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.