Dictamnus albusL.

Burning Bushgasplant

WFO wfo-0000646276 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Dictamnus albus, photographed by Марина Ландшафтное бюро LOOK
fig. a Марина Ландшафтное бюро LOOK, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 205720704
Dictamnus albus, photographed by Michael Andresek
fig. b Michael Andresek, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203886447
Dictamnus albus, photographed by Philipp Pavelka
fig. c Philipp Pavelka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201982853
Dictamnus albus, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. d Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201309527
Dictamnus albus, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. e Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201498312
Dictamnus albus, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. f Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201354400
Dictamnus albus, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. g Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202536331
Dictamnus albus, photographed by Patrick Hacker
fig. h Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201379721

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Native range 32 botanical countries

Regions where Dictamnus albus is native: Altay, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Palestine, Sinai, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, West Himalaya, Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, East European Russia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, South European Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine AltayIranKazakhstanKirgizstanLebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusPalestineSinaiTadzhikistanTranscaucasusTürkiyeUzbekistanPakistanWest HimalayaAlbaniaAustriaBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaEast European RussiaFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyKrymNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSouth European RussiaSpainSwitzerlandUkraine
Native distribution of Dictamnus albus, 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
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Bulgaria BUL
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
East European Russia RUE
France FRA
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iran IRN
Kazakhstan KAZ
Kirgizstan KGZ
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Palestine PAL
Sinai SIN
Tadzhikistan TZK
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Uzbekistan UZB
Pakistan PAK ASIA-TROPICAL
West Himalaya WHM

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 904 in flower of 1,270 examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Dictamnus albus 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. 904 of 1,270 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 3 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 33 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.

  • Dictamnus albus subsp. caucasicus (Fisch. & C.A.Mey.) N.A.Winter
  • Dictamnus albus subsp. dasycarpus (Turcz.) Kitag.
  • Dictamnus albus subsp. gymnostylis (Steven) N.A.Winter
  • Dictamnus albus subsp. turkestanicus N.A.Winter
  • Dictamnus albus var. albiflos (Rchb.) J.Compton & Akeroyd
  • Dictamnus albus var. bucharicus N.A.Winter
  • Dictamnus albus var. caucasicus (Fisch. & C.A.Mey.) Rouy & Foucaud
  • Dictamnus albus var. gynodynamicus Beck
  • Dictamnus albus var. macedonicus Borbás
  • Dictamnus altaicus Fisch. ex Royle
  • Dictamnus angustifolius Sweet
  • Dictamnus caucasicus (Fisch. & C.A.Mey.) Fisch. ex Grossh.
  • Dictamnus dasycarpus f. velutinus (Nakai) W.Lee
  • Dictamnus dasycarpus var. velutinus Nakai
  • Dictamnus davuricus hort.
  • Dictamnus fraxinella Pers.
  • Dictamnus fraxinella var. albiflos Rchb.
  • Dictamnus fraxinella var. caucasica Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
  • Dictamnus generalis E.H.L.Krause
  • Dictamnus gymnostylis Steven
  • Dictamnus himalayanus Royle
  • Dictamnus himalayensis Royle
  • Dictamnus macedonicus (Borbás) Pénzes
  • Dictamnus major hort. ex Vilmorin

and 9 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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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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