Lomelosia argentea(L.) Greuter & Burdet

WFO wfo-0000359404 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Lomelosia argentea, photographed by Galyna Mykytynets
fig. a Galyna Mykytynets, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-07-29 / obs. 148800050
Lomelosia argentea, photographed by Galyna Mykytynets
fig. b Galyna Mykytynets, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 148809389
Lomelosia argentea, photographed by Emanuele Santarelli
fig. c Emanuele Santarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 146357285
Lomelosia argentea, photographed by katunchik
fig. d katunchik, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 144846129
Lomelosia argentea, photographed by Konstantin Grebennikov
fig. e Konstantin Grebennikov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 143100199
Lomelosia argentea, photographed by Вячеслав Юсупов
fig. f Вячеслав Юсупов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 97802818
Lomelosia argentea, photographed by Вячеслав Юсупов
fig. g Вячеслав Юсупов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 97802848
Lomelosia argentea, photographed by Вячеслав Юсупов
fig. h Вячеслав Юсупов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 97802676

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Native range 20 botanical countries

Regions where Lomelosia argentea is native: Algeria, Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Palestine, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania, Sicilia, South European Russia, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine AlgeriaCyprusIranIraqLebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusPalestineTranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaBulgariaGreeceItalyKrymNW. Balkan Pen.RomaniaSiciliaSouth European RussiaTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine
Native distribution of Lomelosia argentea, 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
Bulgaria BUL
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Romania ROM
Sicilia SIC
South European Russia RUS
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Palestine PAL
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Algeria ALG AFRICA

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 50 in flower of 54 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Lomelosia argentea 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. 50 of 54 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 8 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 25 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.

  • Asterocephalus argenteus (L.) Spreng.
  • Asterocephalus eburneus Spreng.
  • Asterocephalus pilosus Lag.
  • Asterocephalus ucranicus (L.) Spreng.
  • Asterocephalus wulfenii Rchb.
  • Lomelosia brachycarpa (Boiss. & Hohen.) Soják
  • Lomelosia ucranica (L.) Soják
  • Scabiosa alba Scop.
  • Scabiosa argentea L.
  • Scabiosa brachycarpa Boiss. & Hohen.
  • Scabiosa eburnea Sm.
  • Scabiosa pilosa (Lag.) Roem. & Schult.
  • Scabiosa taurica Kotov
  • Scabiosa thracica Velen.
  • Scabiosa tmolea Boiss.
  • Scabiosa ucranica L.
  • Scabiosa virgata Grossh.
  • Scabiosa wulfenii Roem. & Schult.
  • Sclerostemma argenteum (L.) Schott
  • Sclerostemma scopolii Schott
  • Sclerostemma siculum Schott
  • Succisa macrocalycina Moench
  • Trochocephalus argenteus (L.) Á.Löve & D.Löve
  • Trochocephalus argenteus subsp. wulfenii (Reichenb.) Á.Löve & D.Löve

and 1 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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