Meniocus linifolius(Stephan ex Willd.) DC.

WFO wfo-0000369703 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Meniocus linifolius, photographed by Konstantin Grebennikov
fig. a Konstantin Grebennikov, CC BY 4.0 / 2014-04-19 / obs. 99952969
Meniocus linifolius, photographed by Konstantin Grebennikov
fig. b Konstantin Grebennikov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 99952955
Meniocus linifolius, photographed by Konstantin Grebennikov
fig. c Konstantin Grebennikov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 99952958
Meniocus linifolius, photographed by Konstantin Grebennikov
fig. d Konstantin Grebennikov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 99952963
Meniocus linifolius, photographed by Анна Митрошенкова
fig. e Анна Митрошенкова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193650562
Meniocus linifolius, photographed by Анна Митрошенкова
fig. f Анна Митрошенкова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194365854
Meniocus linifolius, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. g Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166239747
Meniocus linifolius, photographed by Valerii Darmostuk
fig. h Valerii Darmostuk, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 125403729

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Native range 31 botanical countries

Regions where Meniocus linifolius is native: Algeria, Morocco, Afghanistan, Altay, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Kuwait, Lebanon-Syria, Mongolia, North Caucasus, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Xinjiang, Pakistan, Central European Russia, East European Russia, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania, South European Russia, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine AlgeriaMoroccoAfghanistanAltayIranIraqKazakhstanKirgizstanKrasnoyarskKuwaitLebanon-SyriaMongoliaNorth CaucasusPalestineSaudi ArabiaTadzhikistanTranscaucasusTürkiyeTurkmenistanUzbekistanXinjiangPakistanCentral European RussiaEast European RussiaKrymNW. Balkan Pen.RomaniaSouth European RussiaSpainTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine
Native distribution of Meniocus linifolius, 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
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
Altay ALT
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Kazakhstan KAZ
Kirgizstan KGZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Kuwait KUW
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Mongolia MON
North Caucasus NCS
Palestine PAL
Saudi Arabia SAU
Tadzhikistan TZK
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Turkmenistan TKM
Uzbekistan UZB
Xinjiang CHX
Central European Russia RUC EUROPE
East European Russia RUE
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Morocco MOR
Pakistan PAK ASIA-TROPICAL

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 382 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -15.2 °C -8.5 °C 0.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 23.4 °C 28.5 °C 34.6 °C
Annual rainfall 182 mm 413 mm 724 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 19 mm 69 mm 125 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 382 research-grade observations of Meniocus linifolius 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.

  • Alyssum cupreum Freyn & Sint. ex Freyn
  • Alyssum illyricum Willd.
  • Alyssum linearifolium Lag.
  • Alyssum linifolium Stephan ex Willd.
  • Alyssum linifolium var. cupreum (Freyn & Sint.) T.R.Dudley
  • Alyssum linifolium var. linifolium Stephan ex Willd.
  • Alyssum linifolium var. teheranicum Bornm.
  • Alyssum minimum Pall.
  • Farsetia linifolia Andrz. ex DC.
  • Meniocus australasicus Turcz.

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.