Loncomelos pyrenaicum(L.) L.D.Hrouda

Pyrenees star of Bethlehem

WFO wfo-0000687118 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Loncomelos pyrenaicum, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. a Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205225427
Loncomelos pyrenaicum, photographed by Pete Bradshaw
fig. b Pete Bradshaw, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204829029
Loncomelos pyrenaicum, photographed by Carminda Santos
fig. c Carminda Santos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199472213
Loncomelos pyrenaicum, photographed by Carminda Santos
fig. d Carminda Santos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199560984
Loncomelos pyrenaicum, photographed by Carminda Santos
fig. e Carminda Santos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197888029
Loncomelos pyrenaicum, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. f Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195456032
Loncomelos pyrenaicum, photographed by olrett
fig. g olrett, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192939734
Loncomelos pyrenaicum, photographed by Carminda Santos
fig. h Carminda Santos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 133288139

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Native range 27 botanical countries

Regions where Loncomelos pyrenaicum is native: Canary Is., Libya, Morocco, East Aegean Is., Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Spain, Switzerland, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine LibyaMoroccoEast Aegean Is.Lebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBulgariaCorseCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGreeceHungaryItalyKrymNW. Balkan Pen.PortugalRomaniaSpainSwitzerlandTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine Canary Is.Sardegna
Native distribution of Loncomelos pyrenaicum, 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
Austria AUT
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Corse COR
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Great Britain GRB
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Portugal POR
Romania ROM
Sardegna SAR
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
East Aegean Is. EAI ASIA-TEMPERATE
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Türkiye TUR
Canary Is. CNY AFRICA
Libya LBY
Morocco MOR

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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 338 in flower of 370 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Loncomelos pyrenaicum 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. 338 of 370 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 21 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.

  • Anthericum sulphureum Waldst. & Kit.
  • Beryllis pyrenaica (L.) Salisb.
  • Loncomelos pyrenaicum Raf.
  • Loncoxis sulphurea (Waldst. & Kit.) Raf.
  • Ornithogalum asphodeloides Schur
  • Ornithogalum flavescens Lam.
  • Ornithogalum granatense Pau
  • Ornithogalum melancholicum Klokov ex Krasnova
  • Ornithogalum ochroleucum Montandon
  • Ornithogalum pyrenaicum L.
  • Ornithogalum pyrenaicum subsp. flavescens (Lam.) K.Richt.
  • Ornithogalum pyrenaicum var. flavescens (Lam.) Baker
  • Ornithogalum pyrenaicum var. sphaerocarpum (A.Kern.) Nyman
  • Ornithogalum pyrenaicum var. sulphureum (Waldst. & Kit.) Nyman
  • Ornithogalum racemosum Gaterau
  • Ornithogalum sphaerocarpum A.Kern.
  • Ornithogalum sulphureum (Waldst. & Kit.) Schult. & Schult.f.
  • Parthenostachys pyrenaica (L.) Fourr.
  • Phalangium sulphureum (Waldst. & Kit.) Poir.
  • Scilla sylvestris Savi
  • Stellaris erecta Moench

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. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol ORPY. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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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