Galatella linosyris(L.) Rchb.f.

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WFO wfo-0000039809 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Galatella linosyris, photographed by David Delon
fig. a David Delon, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-11-11 / obs. 168422140

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
05121323
Filed as
Galatella linosyris (L.) Rchb.fil.
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
not recorded
Origin
not recorded
The sheet
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Native range 29 botanical countries

Regions where Galatella linosyris is native: Algeria, Morocco, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, East European Russia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, South European Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine AlgeriaMoroccoNorth CaucasusTranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaAustriaBelarusBelgiumBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaEast European RussiaFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyKrymNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSouth European RussiaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine
Native distribution of Galatella linosyris, 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
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Belarus BLR
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
East European Russia RUE
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Spain SPA
Sweden SWE
Switzerland SWI
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
North Caucasus NCS ASIA-TEMPERATE
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Morocco MOR

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.

Flowering 429 in flower of 468 examined

Proportion of examined Galatella linosyris in flower, by month
Month In flower Examined Share 95% interval
Jan 2 5 40% 12% to 77%
Feb 0 0 too few examined
Mar 1 1 too few examined
Apr 0 2 too few examined
May 2 6 33% 10% to 70%
Jun 2 3 too few examined
Jul 10 15 67% 42% to 85%
Aug 39 47 83% 70% to 91%
Sep 146 148 99% 95% to 100%
Oct 177 183 97% 93% to 98%
Nov 49 57 86% 75% to 93%
Dec 1 1 too few examined

Peak flowering in Sep. Each bar is the share of Galatella linosyris 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. 429 of 468 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 5 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 1,968 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -11.9 °C -3.6 °C 2.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 22.0 °C 25.0 °C 28.7 °C
Annual rainfall 513 mm 697 mm 1,240 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 81 mm 124 mm 221 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 1,968 research-grade observations of Galatella linosyris 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 36 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.

  • Aster anacampthiphyllus Dalla Torre & Sarnth.
  • Aster armoricanus (Rouy) A.W.Hill
  • Aster liburnicus Rouy
  • Aster linosyris (L.) Bernh.
  • Aster linosyris f. monocephalus Priszter
  • Aster savii Arcang.
  • Chrysocoma graminifolia Boeber
  • Chrysocoma liburnica Spreng.
  • Chrysocoma linosyris L.
  • Chrysocoma nupera Gray
  • Chrysocoma palustris Savi ex Bertol.
  • Chrysocoma palustris Savi
  • Chrysocoma tenuifolia Salisb.
  • Chrysocoma vulgaris Gueldenst. ex Ledeb.
  • Crinitaria fominii (Kem.-Nath.) Soják
  • Crinitaria fominii (Kem.-Nath.) Czerep.
  • Crinitaria linosyris (L.) Less.
  • Crinitaria linosyris subsp. armoricana (Rouy) Holub
  • Crinitaria linosyris subsp. linosyris
  • Crinitaria pontica (Lipsky) Soják
  • Crinitina fominii (Kem.-Nath.) Soják
  • Crinitina linosyris (L.) Soják
  • Crinitina linosyris subsp. armoricana (Rouy) Holub
  • Crinitina linosyris subsp. linosyris

and 12 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.
  3. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol ASLI15. public domain. 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.