Hesperis sylvestrisCrantz

WFO wfo-0000721189 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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.

Hesperis sylvestris, photographed by Patrick Hacker
fig. a Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-05-21 / obs. 74848990
Hesperis sylvestris, photographed by Patrick Hacker
fig. b Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 74849218
Hesperis sylvestris, photographed by Patrick Hacker
fig. c Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 74849141
Hesperis sylvestris, photographed by Patrick Hacker
fig. d Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 74849039
Hesperis sylvestris, photographed by Patrick Hacker
fig. e Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 74849104
Hesperis sylvestris, photographed by Patrick Hacker
fig. f Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 74849181
Hesperis sylvestris, photographed by Patrick Hacker
fig. g Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 74849315
Hesperis sylvestris, photographed by Patrick Hacker
fig. h Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 74849353

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Native range 10 botanical countries

Regions where Hesperis sylvestris is native: Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, Greece, Hungary, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania, Ukraine AlbaniaAustriaBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaGreeceHungaryKrymNW. Balkan Pen.RomaniaUkraine
Native distribution of Hesperis sylvestris, 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
Bulgaria BUL
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Romania ROM
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 11 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.

  • Deilosma suaveolens Andrz. ex Besser
  • Deilosma suaveolens Andrz.
  • Hesperis runcinata Waldst. & Kit.
  • Hesperis siliquo-glandulosa (Rohlena) F.Dvorák
  • Hesperis siliquosa Kuntze
  • Hesperis suaveolens Besser ex Steud.
  • Hesperis sylvestris subsp. sylvestris Crantz
  • Hesperis sylvestris subsp. velenovskyi (Fritsch) Borza
  • Hesperis sylvestris var. siliqua-glandulosa Rohlena
  • Hesperis sylvestris var. velenovskyi Fritsch
  • Hesperis velenovskyi (Fritsch) Fritsch

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.

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.