Fibigia clypeata(L.) Medik.

WFO wfo-0000687119 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Fibigia clypeata, photographed by Ben Costamagna
fig. a Ben Costamagna, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-06 / obs. 205978058
Fibigia clypeata, photographed by Emanuele Santarelli
fig. b Emanuele Santarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 130559940
Fibigia clypeata, photographed by Михаил Орлов
fig. c Михаил Орлов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 105029604
Fibigia clypeata, photographed by Михаил Орлов
fig. d Михаил Орлов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 73753950
Fibigia clypeata, photographed by Even Dankowicz
fig. e Even Dankowicz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 53575981
Fibigia clypeata, photographed by Emanuele Santarelli
fig. f Emanuele Santarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 35500177
Fibigia clypeata, photographed by Михаил Орлов
fig. g Михаил Орлов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 64632502
Fibigia clypeata, photographed by Михаил Орлов
fig. h Михаил Орлов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 56885218

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Native range 17 botanical countries

Regions where Fibigia clypeata is native: Egypt, Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Palestine, Sinai, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Türkiye-in-Europe EgyptCyprusIranIraqLebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusPalestineSinaiTranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaBulgariaGreeceItalyKrymNW. Balkan Pen.Türkiye-in-Europe
Native distribution of Fibigia clypeata, 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
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Palestine PAL
Sinai SIN
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Albania ALB EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Egypt EGY AFRICA

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 33 in flower of 77 examined

Peak flowering in Apr. Each bar is the share of Fibigia clypeata 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. 33 of 77 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 4 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. 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 523 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -5.4 °C -0.2 °C 4.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 23.5 °C 26.1 °C 32.3 °C
Annual rainfall 502 mm 823 mm 1,013 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 2 mm 132 mm 184 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 523 research-grade observations of Fibigia clypeata 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.

  • Acuston clypeatum (L.) Raf.
  • Adyseton petalodes G.Don
  • Alyssum cheiranthifolium Willd.
  • Alyssum clypeatum L.
  • Alyssum petalodes DC.
  • Draba clypeata (L.) Lam.
  • Farsetia cheiranthifolia (Willd.) Desv.
  • Farsetia clypeata (Schenk) E.Fourn.
  • Farsetia clypeata (L.) W.T.Aiton
  • Farsetia clypeata var. rostrata (Schenk) E.Fourn.
  • Farsetia eriocarpa DC.
  • Farsetia obovata Boiss. & Kotschy
  • Farsetia rostrata Schenk
  • Fibigia clypeata var. clypeata
  • Fibigia clypeata var. eriocarpa (DC.) J.Thiébaut
  • Fibigia eriocarpa (DC.) Boiss.
  • Fibigia obovata (Boiss. & Kotschy) Boiss.
  • Fibigia rostrata (Schenk) Boiss.
  • Lunaria canescens Willd.
  • Lunaria clypeata (L.) All.

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. 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.