Jurinea multifloraB.Fedtsch.

WFO wfo-0000014224 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Jurinea multiflora, photographed by Galyna Mykytynets
fig. a Galyna Mykytynets, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-06-16 / obs. 137006747
Jurinea multiflora, photographed by Valerii Glazunov
fig. b Valerii Glazunov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 138360189
Jurinea multiflora, photographed by Galyna Mykytynets
fig. c Galyna Mykytynets, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 118032751
Jurinea multiflora, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. d Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 31576752
Jurinea multiflora, photographed by Konstantin Grebennikov
fig. e Konstantin Grebennikov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 143107201
Jurinea multiflora, photographed by Анна Митрошенкова
fig. f Анна Митрошенкова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136201410
Jurinea multiflora, photographed by Valerii Glazunov
fig. g Valerii Glazunov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 135449293
Jurinea multiflora, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. h Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 43433909

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Jurinea multiflora is native: Altay, Iran, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Central European Russia, East European Russia, Krym, Romania, South European Russia, Ukraine AltayIranKazakhstanMongoliaNorth CaucasusTranscaucasusTürkiyeWest SiberiaXinjiangCentral European RussiaEast European RussiaKrymRomaniaSouth European RussiaUkraine
Native distribution of Jurinea multiflora, 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
Iran IRN
Kazakhstan KAZ
Mongolia MON
North Caucasus NCS
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX
Central European Russia RUC EUROPE
East European Russia RUE
Krym KRY
Romania ROM
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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 391 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -18.7 °C -11.9 °C -4.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 24.8 °C 26.2 °C 29.9 °C
Annual rainfall 306 mm 430 mm 561 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 54 mm 82 mm 111 mm

It is found where winters are severely cold. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 391 research-grade observations of Jurinea multiflora that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 10 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.

  • Jurinea ambigua DC.
  • Jurinea ambiqua DC.
  • Jurinea linearifolia DC.
  • Saussurea multiflora (L.) DC.
  • Serratula ambigua DC.
  • Serratula ambiqua DC.
  • Serratula linearifolia DC.
  • Serratula multiflora L.
  • Serratula salicifolia Lepech.
  • Serratula salicina Pall.

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.