Dipsacus fullonumL.

wild teasel

WFO wfo-0000651022 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Dipsacus fullonum, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. a Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205685896
Dipsacus fullonum, photographed by Nicholas Stockmaster
fig. b Nicholas Stockmaster, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205195766
Dipsacus fullonum, photographed by Andrew Murray
fig. c Andrew Murray, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205265483
Dipsacus fullonum, photographed by Andrew Skotnicki
fig. d Andrew Skotnicki, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205523701
Dipsacus fullonum, photographed by SamKelly
fig. e SamKelly, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205874651
Dipsacus fullonum, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. f Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203585857
Dipsacus fullonum, photographed by gerardbertrand
fig. g gerardbertrand, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202725935
Dipsacus fullonum, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. h Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202827449

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Flowering n = 2,209 observations

Peak flowering in Jul, from 2,209 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 19 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.

  • Dipsacus arcimusci Lojac.
  • Dipsacus botteri Maly ex Nyman
  • Dipsacus carminatorius Salisb.
  • Dipsacus connatofolius Gilib.
  • Dipsacus divaricatus C.Presl
  • Dipsacus fullonum f. ternatus Farw.
  • Dipsacus fullonum var. sylvestris (Huds.) Huds.
  • Dipsacus horridus Opiz
  • Dipsacus meyeri Chabert
  • Dipsacus mirabilis Gand.
  • Dipsacus morisonii Boreau
  • Dipsacus orsini Sanguin.
  • Dipsacus palustris Salisb.
  • Dipsacus purpurascens Gand.
  • Dipsacus silvester A.Kern.
  • Dipsacus sinuatus Schltdl. ex Roem. & Schult.
  • Dipsacus sylvestris Huds.
  • Dipsacus sylvestris f. albidus Steyerm.
  • Dipsacus vulgaris C.C.Gmel.

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.