Euphrasia micranthaRchb.

northern eyebright

WFO wfo-0001138643 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Euphrasia micrantha, photographed by aroche
fig. a aroche, CC BY 4.0 / 2004-07-31 / obs. 12889361
Euphrasia micrantha, photographed by aroche
fig. b aroche, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 12889364
Euphrasia micrantha, photographed by aroche
fig. c aroche, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 12889367

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Native range 21 botanical countries

Regions where Euphrasia micrantha is native: Austria, Baltic States, Belgium, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Northwest European Russia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine AustriaBaltic StatesBelgiumCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaDenmarkEast European RussiaFinlandFranceGermanyIrelandItalyNetherlandsNorthwest European RussiaNorwayPolandRomaniaSpainSwedenUkraine
Native distribution of Euphrasia micrantha, 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
Austria AUT EUROPE
Baltic States BLT
Belgium BGM
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Denmark DEN
East European Russia RUE
Finland FIN
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Ireland IRE
Italy ITA
Netherlands NET
Northwest European Russia RUW
Norway NOR
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Spain SPA
Sweden SWE
Ukraine UKR

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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.

Also published as 17 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.

  • Euphrasia curta (Fr.) Wettst.
  • Euphrasia curta subsp. glabrescens (Wettst.) Smejkal
  • Euphrasia curta var. glabrescens Wettst.
  • Euphrasia glabrescens (Wettst.) Wiinst.
  • Euphrasia gracilis (Fr.) Fr.
  • Euphrasia nemorosa subsp. curta (Fr.) Asch. & Graebn.
  • Euphrasia nemorosa subvar. glabrescens (Wettst.) Hartl
  • Euphrasia nemorosa var. curta (Fr.) Hartl
  • Euphrasia officinalis subsp. gracilis (Fr.) Bonnier
  • Euphrasia officinalis var. cucullata Wahlenb.
  • Euphrasia officinalis var. curta Fr.
  • Euphrasia officinalis var. gracilis Fr.
  • Euphrasia parviflora Schag.
  • Euphrasia parviflora subsp. glabrescens (Wettst.) O.Schwarz
  • Euphrasia parviflora var. glabrescens (Wettst.) Tzvelev
  • Euphrasia praecurta Chitr.
  • Euphrasia stricta var. curta (Fr.) Jalas

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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