Eryngium campestreL.

field eryngo

WFO wfo-0000677787 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Eryngium campestre, photographed by Pete Bradshaw
fig. a Pete Bradshaw, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-08 / obs. 204423056
Eryngium campestre, photographed by Pete Bradshaw
fig. b Pete Bradshaw, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204421770
Eryngium campestre, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. c Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204131124
Eryngium campestre, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. d Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204136069
Eryngium campestre, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. e Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204132973
Eryngium campestre, photographed by Björn Sothmann
fig. f Björn Sothmann, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 204128273
Eryngium campestre, photographed by Vladimír Fuka
fig. g Vladimír Fuka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204490971
Eryngium campestre, photographed by Vladimír Fuka
fig. h Vladimír Fuka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203940873

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
4141368
Filed as
Eryngium campestre L.
Det. by
C. I. Calviño 2017-01-01
Collected
not recorded
Origin
not recorded
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 41 botanical countries

Regions where Eryngium campestre is native: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Sinai, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Austria, Baleares, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kriti, Krym, Netherlands, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Sicilia, South European Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine AlgeriaEgyptLibyaMoroccoTunisiaCyprusEast Aegean Is.IranIraqLebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusSinaiTranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBulgariaCentral European RussiaCorseCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyKritiKrymNetherlandsNW. Balkan Pen.PolandPortugalRomaniaSiciliaSouth European RussiaSpainSwitzerlandTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine BalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Eryngium campestre, 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
Austria AUT
Baleares BAL
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Corse COR
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Krym KRY
Netherlands NET
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Portugal POR
Romania ROM
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
South European Russia RUS
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Sinai SIN
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Egypt EGY
Libya LBY
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN

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 496 in flower of 1,223 examined

Peak flowering in Aug. Each bar is the share of Eryngium campestre 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. 496 of 1,223 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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 2,025 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -8.8 °C -1.1 °C 6.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 21.9 °C 26.4 °C 31.9 °C
Annual rainfall 415 mm 618 mm 1,065 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 29 mm 99 mm 181 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 2,025 research-grade observations of Eryngium campestre that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 20 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.

  • Eryngium campestre f. angustiinvolucratum Micheletti
  • Eryngium campestre f. contractum Micheletti
  • Eryngium campestre f. elegans Micheletti
  • Eryngium campestre f. latiinvolucratum Micheletti
  • Eryngium campestre subsp. contractum (Micheletti) Degen
  • Eryngium campestre var. algeriense Chabert
  • Eryngium campestre var. axicum Griseb.
  • Eryngium campestre var. genuinum Rouy & E.G.Camus
  • Eryngium campestre var. latifolium Mariz
  • Eryngium campestre var. littorale Rouy & E.G.Camus
  • Eryngium campestre var. megacephalum Des Moul.
  • Eryngium campestre var. parvifolium Merino
  • Eryngium campestre var. tenuibracteatum Sennen
  • Eryngium dichotomum var. ramosissimum Loscos & J.Pardo
  • Eryngium duriberum Sennen & Pau
  • Eryngium latifolium Hoffmanns. & Link ex Willk. & Lange
  • Eryngium lycium Stapf & Wettst. ex Stapf
  • Eryngium officinale Garsault
  • Eryngium virens Link
  • Eryngium vulgare Lam.

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.

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.