Globularia vulgaris

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Globularia vulgaris, photographed by Denys Vynokurov — fig. b Denys Vynokurov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186782109

Globularia vulgaris, photographed by Thomas Galewski — fig. c Thomas Galewski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 119975979

Globularia vulgaris, photographed by Yves Bas — fig. d Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 66681716

Globularia vulgaris, photographed by Hanna Larsson — fig. f Hanna Larsson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 39196361

Globularia vulgaris, photographed by Julien Renoult — fig. g Julien Renoult, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 38182350

Globularia vulgaris, photographed by Fabien Piednoir — fig. h Fabien Piednoir, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 7776632

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Native range 1 botanical country

Native distribution of Globularia vulgaris, 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
Sweden	SWE	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 137 in flower of 145 examined

100%

Proportion of examined Globularia vulgaris in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	1	too few examined
Feb	1	1	too few examined
Mar	35	35	100%	90% to 100%
Apr	64	64	100%	94% to 100%
May	31	31	100%	89% to 100%
Jun	4	4	too few examined
Jul	0	2	too few examined
Aug	0	2	too few examined
Sep	0	2	too few examined
Oct	0	1	too few examined
Nov	1	1	too few examined
Dec	1	1	too few examined

Peak flowering in Mar. Each bar is the share of Globularia vulgaris 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. 137 of 145 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 7 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.

Globularia collina Salisb.
Globularia linnaei Rouy
Globularia suecica Nyman
Globularia vulgaris subsp. linnaei Wettst.
Globularia vulgaris subsp. linnaei Rouy
Globularia vulgaris var. elatior Gaudin
Globularia vulgaris var. oelandica Lange

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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