Dipsacus laciniatusL.

cutleaf teasel

WFO wfo-0000651035 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Dipsacus laciniatus, photographed by Zakqary Roy
fig. a Zakqary Roy, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-20 / obs. 199164412
Dipsacus laciniatus, photographed by Patrick Hanly
fig. b Patrick Hanly, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192211501
Dipsacus laciniatus, photographed by Cecil Smith
fig. c Cecil Smith, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180376804
Dipsacus laciniatus, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. d Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 180879767
Dipsacus laciniatus, photographed by Cecil Smith
fig. e Cecil Smith, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179764910
Dipsacus laciniatus, photographed by Tyler Bishop
fig. f Tyler Bishop, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169243960
Dipsacus laciniatus, photographed by Jason Swanson
fig. g Jason Swanson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 165463412
Dipsacus laciniatus, photographed by Kathy Richardson
fig. h Kathy Richardson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 157253342

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Native range 28 botanical countries

Regions where Dipsacus laciniatus is native: Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, South European Russia, Switzerland, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine AfghanistanIranIraqKazakhstanKirgizstanLebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusTadzhikistanTranscaucasusTürkiyeTurkmenistanUzbekistanAlbaniaAustriaBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryKrymNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSouth European RussiaSwitzerlandTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine
Native distribution of Dipsacus laciniatus, 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
France FRA
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Switzerland SWI
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Kazakhstan KAZ
Kirgizstan KGZ
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Tadzhikistan TZK
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Turkmenistan TKM
Uzbekistan UZB

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 480 in flower of 850 examined

Peak flowering in Aug. Each bar is the share of Dipsacus laciniatus 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. 480 of 850 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 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 1 synonym

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 microcephalus Martrin-Donos

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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