Helichrysum italicum

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Helichrysum italicum, photographed by Andre Hosper — fig. c Andre Hosper, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 33960763

Helichrysum italicum, photographed by Daniela Costa — fig. e Daniela Costa, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190444220

Helichrysum italicum, photographed by Duarte Frade — fig. f Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 1469156

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Native range 17 botanical countries

Native distribution of Helichrysum italicum, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Baleares	BAL	EUROPE
Corse	COR
France	FRA
Greece	GRC
Italy	ITA
Kriti	KRI
NW. Balkan Pen.	YUG
Portugal	POR
Sardegna	SAR
Sicilia	SIC
Spain	SPA
Algeria	ALG	AFRICA
Morocco	MOR
Tunisia	TUN
Cyprus	CYP	ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is.	EAI
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 285 in flower of 438 examined

50%

13%

29%

41%

69%

88%

38%

85%

69%

50%

Proportion of examined Helichrysum italicum in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	1	2	too few examined
Feb	4	8	50%	22% to 78%
Mar	1	8	13%	2% to 47%
Apr	4	14	29%	12% to 55%
May	19	46	41%	28% to 56%
Jun	72	104	69%	60% to 77%
Jul	89	129	69%	61% to 76%
Aug	56	64	88%	77% to 94%
Sep	8	21	38%	21% to 59%
Oct	17	20	85%	64% to 95%
Nov	11	16	69%	44% to 86%
Dec	3	6	50%	19% to 81%

Peak flowering in Aug. Each bar is the share of Helichrysum italicum 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. 285 of 438 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. One month has fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for it. 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 33 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.

Gnaphalium glutinosum Ten.
Gnaphalium glutinosum var. glutinosum
Gnaphalium italicum Roth
Gnaphalium microphyllum Willd.
Gnaphalium scandens Sieber ex DC.
Gnaphalium stoechas Sm.
Helichrysum angustifolium subsp. serotinum (DC.) Cout.
Helichrysum angustifolium var. numidicum (Pomel) Maire
Helichrysum italicum subsp. ericoideum (Fiori) Georgiadou
Helichrysum italicum var. italicum
Helichrysum italicum var. numidicum (Pomel) Quézel & Santa
Helichrysum italicum var. serotinum (Boiss.) O.Bolòs & Vigo
Helichrysum libanotis Jord. & Fourr.
Helichrysum microphyllum Cambess.
Helichrysum microphyllum subsp. microphyllum
Helichrysum microphyllum subsp. tyrrhenicum Bacch., Brullo & Giusso
Helichrysum numidicum Pomel
Helichrysum picardii Boiss. & Reut.
Helichrysum picardii subsp. picardii
Helichrysum picardii subsp. virescens (Valdés Berm.) Rivas Mart.
Helichrysum picardii var. picardii
Helichrysum picardii var. virescens Valdés Berm.
Helichrysum pseudolitoreum (Fiori) Brullo
Helichrysum rupestre subsp. glutinosum (Ten.) Nyman

and 9 more.

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.

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.