Odontarrhena muralis(Waldst. & Kit.) Endl.

yellowtuft

WFO wfo-0001278341 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Odontarrhena muralis, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. a Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-06-21 / obs. 159206078
Odontarrhena muralis, photographed by Matt Lavin
fig. b Matt Lavin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177923996
Odontarrhena muralis, photographed by Matt Lavin
fig. c Matt Lavin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177924008
Odontarrhena muralis, photographed by Matt Lavin
fig. d Matt Lavin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177924024
Odontarrhena muralis, photographed by Matt Lavin
fig. e Matt Lavin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177924015
Odontarrhena muralis, photographed by Tatiana Strus
fig. f Tatiana Strus, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 138562935
Odontarrhena muralis, photographed by Denys Vynokurov
fig. g Denys Vynokurov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 81726375
Odontarrhena muralis, photographed by Алена Ручка
fig. h Алена Ручка, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 78474187

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Native range 13 botanical countries

Regions where Odontarrhena muralis is native: Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Palestine, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Bulgaria, Greece, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania, Ukraine IranIraqLebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusPalestineTranscaucasusTürkiyeBulgariaGreeceKrymNW. Balkan Pen.RomaniaUkraine
Native distribution of Odontarrhena muralis, 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
Iran IRN ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iraq IRQ
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Palestine PAL
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Bulgaria BUL EUROPE
Greece GRC
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Romania ROM
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 326 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -13.2 °C -3.8 °C 2.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 19.6 °C 26.1 °C 28.7 °C
Annual rainfall 371 mm 734 mm 1,544 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 5 mm 130 mm 253 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 326 research-grade observations of Odontarrhena muralis 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 41 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 argenteoides Nyár.
  • Alyssum argenteum (Ledeb.) Schmalh.
  • Alyssum caucasicum Nyár.
  • Alyssum chlorocarpum Hausskn.
  • Alyssum decipiens Nyár.
  • Alyssum degenianum Nyár.
  • Alyssum diffusum Jord. & Fourr. ex Nyman
  • Alyssum gracile Formánek
  • Alyssum mesopotamicum Fenzl
  • Alyssum murale Waldst. & Kit.
  • Alyssum murale f. griseum Nyár.
  • Alyssum murale f. reichenbachianum Nyár.
  • Alyssum murale f. rotundatum (Nyár.) Trinajstić
  • Alyssum murale subsp. caucasicum Nyár.
  • Alyssum murale subsp. chalcidicum (Janka) Contandr.
  • Alyssum murale subsp. chlorocarpum (Hausskn.) Contandr.
  • Alyssum murale subsp. dramense Nyár.
  • Alyssum murale subsp. murale
  • Alyssum murale subsp. stojanoffii (Nyár.) T.R.Dudley
  • Alyssum murale subsp. stojanovii (Nyár.) T.R.Dudley
  • Alyssum murale var. alpinum Boiss. ex Nyár
  • Alyssum murale var. chrysanthum Boiss.
  • Alyssum murale var. macrocarpum Post
  • Alyssum murale var. murale

and 17 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. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol ALMU. 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.

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.