Fumana laevis | BotanAI

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Fumana laevis, photographed by Karim Haddad — fig. a Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-30 / obs. 201889887

Fumana laevis, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis — fig. b Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189689959

Fumana laevis, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi — fig. d Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 135105353

Fumana laevis, photographed by Abdenour Kheloufi — fig. e Abdenour Kheloufi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 132831345

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Native range 1 botanical country

Native distribution of Fumana laevis, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Spain	SPA	EUROPE

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 58 in flower of 68 examined

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Proportion of examined Fumana laevis in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	1	2	too few examined
Feb	3	6	50%	19% to 81%
Mar	5	5	100%	57% to 100%
Apr	9	9	100%	70% to 100%
May	17	20	85%	64% to 95%
Jun	9	11	82%	52% to 95%
Jul	7	8	88%	53% to 98%
Aug	1	1	too few examined
Sep	0	0	too few examined
Oct	2	2	too few examined
Nov	4	4	too few examined
Dec	0	0	too few examined

Peak flowering in Mar. Each bar is the share of Fumana laevis 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. 58 of 68 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 6 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.

Also published as 23 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.

Cistus laevis Cav.
Fumana glutinosa f. hispidula (Loscos & J.Pardo) Pau
Fumana glutinosa subsp. laevis (Cav.) Pau
Fumana glutinosa var. hispidula (Loscos & J.Pardo) Rouy
Fumana glutinosa var. laevis (Cav.) Willk.
Fumana hispidula Loscos & J.Pardo
Fumana hispidula var. pabularis Pau
Fumana laevipes var. laevis (Cav.) Bonnier
Fumana laevis f. genuina Pau
Fumana laevis var. hispidula (Loscos & J.Pardo) C.Vicioso
Fumana laevis var. pabularis Pau
Fumana thymifolia f. laevis (Cav.) Janch.
Fumana thymifolia subsp. laevis (Cav.) Molero & Rovira
Fumana thymifolia var. glabra Webb
Fumana thymifolia var. laevis (Cav.) Grosser
Fumana viscida subsp. hispidula (Loscos & J.Pardo) Pau
Fumana viscida var. laevis (Cav.) Gren.
Fumana viscida var. longifolia Spach
Fumanopsis laevis (Cav.) Tzvelev
Helianthemum glutinosum var. laeve (Cav.) Benth.
Helianthemum laeve Rchb. ex Nyman
Helianthemum laeve (Cav.) Pers.
Helianthemum thymifolium var. laeve (Cav.) Nyman

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
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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