Leontodon tuberosusL.

WFO wfo-0000126409 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Leontodon tuberosus, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. a Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-25 / obs. 190818766
Leontodon tuberosus, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. b Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174751253
Leontodon tuberosus, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. c Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174748906
Leontodon tuberosus, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. d Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174749048
Leontodon tuberosus, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. e Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174601315
Leontodon tuberosus, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. f Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174600179
Leontodon tuberosus, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. g Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174602000
Leontodon tuberosus, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. h Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 139500055

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Native range 24 botanical countries

Regions where Leontodon tuberosus is native: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Türkiye, Albania, Baleares, Bulgaria, Corse, France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe AlgeriaEgyptLibyaMoroccoTunisiaCyprusEast Aegean Is.Lebanon-SyriaPalestineTürkiyeAlbaniaBulgariaCorseFranceGreeceItalyKritiNW. Balkan Pen.PortugalSiciliaSpainTürkiye-in-Europe BalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Leontodon tuberosus, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Baleares BAL
Bulgaria BUL
Corse COR
France FRA
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Portugal POR
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Egypt EGY
Libya LBY
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Palestine PAL
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 271 in flower of 281 examined

Peak flowering in Feb. Each bar is the share of Leontodon tuberosus 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. 271 of 281 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 4 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. 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 27 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.

  • Apargia bulbosa Balb.
  • Apargia lyrata Ten.
  • Apargia tuberosa (L.) Willd.
  • Colobium tripolitanum (Boiss.) Holub
  • Colobium tuberosum (L.) Holub
  • Hyoseris grumosa (Brot.) Poir.
  • Hyoseris tuberosa (L.) Savi
  • Leontodon oliverii (DC.) Prain
  • Leontodon tuberosum Batt.
  • Leontodon tuberosus subsp. oliverii (DC.) Holmboe
  • Leontodon tuberosus var. longirostris Faure & Maire
  • Leontodon tuberosus var. squamatus (Caball.) Maire
  • Leontodon tuberosus var. tripolitanus (Sch.Bip.) Durand & Barratte
  • Leontodon tuberosus var. tuberosus
  • Picris tuberosa (L.) All.
  • Spitzelia tuberosa Pomel
  • Thrincia grumosa Brot.
  • Thrincia nudicaulis subsp. tuberosa (L.) P.Fourn.
  • Thrincia oliverii (DC.) Hausskn.
  • Thrincia squamata Caball.
  • Thrincia tripolitana Coss.
  • Thrincia tripolitana Boiss.
  • Thrincia tuberosa (L.) DC.
  • Thrincia tuberosa var. isocarpa Bisch.

and 3 more.

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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