Iberis ciliataAll.

WFO wfo-0000728813 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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.

Iberis ciliata, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. a Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-21 / obs. 199410636
Iberis ciliata, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. b Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 68034900
Iberis ciliata, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. c Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199410581
Iberis ciliata, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. d Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 68037200
Iberis ciliata, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. e Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 68037222
Iberis ciliata, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. f Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 68037235

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Iberis ciliata is native: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, France, Portugal, Spain AlgeriaMoroccoTunisiaFrancePortugalSpain
Native distribution of Iberis ciliata, 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
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
France FRA EUROPE
Portugal POR
Spain SPA

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 18 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.

  • Biauricula ciliata (All.) Bubani
  • Iberis balansae Jord.
  • Iberis bourgaei Jord.
  • Iberis ciliata var. rifana Emb. & Maire
  • Iberis contracta Pers.
  • Iberis contracta subsp. contracta Pers.
  • Iberis contracta subsp. rifana (Emb. & Maire) Valdés
  • Iberis contracta subsp. welwitschii (Boiss.) Moreno
  • Iberis linifolia subsp. balansae (Jord.) Maire & Weiller
  • Iberis linifolia subsp. ciliata (All.) O.Bolòs & Vigo
  • Iberis linifolia subsp. rifana (Emb. & Maire) Maire & Weiller
  • Iberis linifolia subsp. welwitschii (Boiss. & Reut.) Franco & P.Silva
  • Iberis linifolia var. contracta (Pers.) Rivas Goday & Esteve
  • Iberis lusitanica Jord.
  • Iberis molinerii Balb.
  • Iberis paularensis Pau
  • Iberis raynevalii Boiss. & Reut.
  • Iberis welwitschii Boiss.

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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