Dryas octopetalaL.

Eight-petal Mountain-Avens

WFO wfo-0000996365 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Dryas octopetala, photographed by Piotr Lukasik
fig. a Piotr Lukasik, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-05 / obs. 204576809
Dryas octopetala, photographed by Philipp
fig. b Philipp, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203477768
Dryas octopetala, photographed by Anne Thomson
fig. c Anne Thomson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202767905
Dryas octopetala, photographed by Anne Thomson
fig. d Anne Thomson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202995422
Dryas octopetala, photographed by Elias
fig. e Elias, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201307563
Dryas octopetala, photographed by Erin McKittrick
fig. f Erin McKittrick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201435129
Dryas octopetala, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. g Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202771222
Dryas octopetala, photographed by Attila Oláh
fig. h Attila Oláh, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201212102

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Flowering n = 1,504 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 1,504 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 66 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.

  • Dryadaea octopetala (L.) Kuntze
  • Dryas alpina Salisb.
  • Dryas babingtoniana A.E.Porsild
  • Dryas camschatica Juz.
  • Dryas camschatica f. albicans (Kom.) Kom. ex Juz.
  • Dryas caucasica Juz.
  • Dryas chamaedrifolia (Crantz) Gray
  • Dryas chamaedrifolioides Pall.
  • Dryas chamaedryoides Pall.
  • Dryas crenata Raf.
  • Dryas dasypetala Juz.
  • Dryas depressa (Bab.) Bab.
  • Dryas eriopoda Gand.
  • Dryas henricae Juz.
  • Dryas lanata Stein ex Correvon
  • Dryas lepida Gand.
  • Dryas montana Bubani
  • Dryas nivea F.Kern. ex Correvon
  • Dryas octopetala f. albicans Kom.
  • Dryas octopetala f. argentea (Blytt) Hultén
  • Dryas octopetala f. hirsuta Hartz
  • Dryas octopetala f. lanata (Stein ex Correvon) C.K.Schneid.
  • Dryas octopetala f. octopetala
  • Dryas octopetala f. typica Derganc

and 42 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.

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.