Herniaria polygamaJ.Gay

WFO wfo-0000720729 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Herniaria polygama, photographed by Galyna Mykytynets
fig. a Galyna Mykytynets, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-06-09 / obs. 113860196
Herniaria polygama, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. b Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 43042514
Herniaria polygama, photographed by Анна Митрошенкова
fig. c Анна Митрошенкова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161875959
Herniaria polygama, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. d Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166555452
Herniaria polygama, photographed by Елена Патерикина
fig. e Елена Патерикина, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 75941168
Herniaria polygama, photographed by Анна Митрошенкова
fig. f Анна Митрошенкова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161875994
Herniaria polygama, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. g Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166555443
Herniaria polygama, photographed by Анна Митрошенкова
fig. h Анна Митрошенкова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161876018

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Herniaria polygama is native: Altay, Kazakhstan, Krasnoyarsk, Mongolia, North Caucasus, Tuva, Xinjiang, Belarus, Central European Russia, East European Russia, South European Russia, Ukraine AltayKazakhstanKrasnoyarskMongoliaNorth CaucasusTuvaXinjiangBelarusCentral European RussiaEast European RussiaSouth European RussiaUkraine
Native distribution of Herniaria polygama, 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
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Kazakhstan KAZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Mongolia MON
North Caucasus NCS
Tuva TVA
Xinjiang CHX
Belarus BLR EUROPE
Central European Russia RUC
East European Russia RUE
South European Russia RUS
Ukraine UKR

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.

Also published as 1 synonym

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.

  • Herniaria odorata Andrz. ex J.Gay

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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