Euonymus europaeusL.

Spindle

WFO wfo-0000681728 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–f

Euonymus europaeus, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. a Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205235853
Euonymus europaeus, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. b Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203314553
Euonymus europaeus, photographed by Anastasia_Surkova
fig. c Anastasia_Surkova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201614879
Euonymus europaeus, photographed by Rachel Webster
fig. d Rachel Webster, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202654532
Euonymus europaeus, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. e Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201619821
Euonymus europaeus, photographed by aga_l_
fig. f aga_l_, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201634221

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Flowering n = 1,015 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 1,015 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 51 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.

  • Euonymus angustifolius Gilib.
  • Euonymus bulgarica Velen.
  • Euonymus bulgaricus Velen.
  • Euonymus czernjaevii Klokov
  • Euonymus europaeus f. albus (Weston) Rehder
  • Euonymus europaeus f. aldenhamensis (Gibbs) Rehder
  • Euonymus europaeus f. angustifolius Gančev
  • Euonymus europaeus f. atropurpureus (Mouill.) Hegi
  • Euonymus europaeus f. atrorubens (C.K.Schneid.) Hegi
  • Euonymus europaeus f. bulgaricus (Velen.) Gančev
  • Euonymus europaeus f. microphyllus (Beck) Gančev
  • Euonymus europaeus f. nanus (Lodd. ex Loudon) Besser
  • Euonymus europaeus f. scaberulus (Beck ex Hayek) Jovan.
  • Euonymus europaeus subf. scaberulus Beck ex Hayek
  • Euonymus europaeus subsp. moldavicus (Klokov) Grosset
  • Euonymus europaeus subsp. ponticus Savul. & Rayss
  • Euonymus europaeus subsp. subvelutinus (Săvul. & Rayss) Grosset
  • Euonymus europaeus subsp. tenuifolius (L.) Ehrh.
  • Euonymus europaeus unranked aldenhamensis Gibbs
  • Euonymus europaeus var. albus Weston
  • Euonymus europaeus var. aldenhamensis (Gibbs) Bean
  • Euonymus europaeus var. angustifolius Schultz
  • Euonymus europaeus var. atropurpureus Mouill.
  • Euonymus europaeus var. australis Kom.

and 27 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.