Geropogon hybridus(L.) Sch.Bip.

WFO wfo-0000116164 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Geropogon hybridus, photographed by Juan C. Espinosa
fig. a Juan C. Espinosa, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-01 / obs. 194321028
Geropogon hybridus, photographed by Sara Navarro
fig. b Sara Navarro, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192936732
Geropogon hybridus, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. c Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203150466
Geropogon hybridus, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. d Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 125875300
Geropogon hybridus, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. e Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 121388795
Geropogon hybridus, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. f Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 119667663
Geropogon hybridus, photographed by Santiago Martín-Bravo
fig. g Santiago Martín-Bravo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 117225928
Geropogon hybridus, photographed by Grzegorz Grzejszczak
fig. h Grzegorz Grzejszczak, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 64020821

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Native range 31 botanical countries

Regions where Geropogon hybridus is native: Algeria, Canary Is., Egypt, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, Tunisia, Western Sahara, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Baleares, Corse, France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine AlgeriaEgyptLibyaMoroccoTunisiaWestern SaharaCyprusEast Aegean Is.IranIraqLebanon-SyriaPalestineTranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaCorseFranceGreeceItalyKritiKrymNW. Balkan Pen.PortugalSiciliaSpainTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine Canary Is.MadeiraBalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Geropogon hybridus, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Baleares BAL
Corse COR
France FRA
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Portugal POR
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Canary Is. CNY
Egypt EGY
Libya LBY
Madeira MDR
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
Western Sahara WSA
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Palestine PAL
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR

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 69 in flower of 75 examined

Peak flowering in Mar. Each bar is the share of Geropogon hybridus 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. 69 of 75 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 9 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 9 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.

  • Geropogon australe Spreng.
  • Geropogon australis Spreng.
  • Geropogon glaber L.
  • Geropogon glabrum L.
  • Geropogon hirsutus L.
  • Tragopogon geropogon Rouy
  • Tragopogon glaber Hill.
  • Tragopogon hirsutus (L.) Hill
  • Tragopogon hybridus L.

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.

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