Odontites vulgarisMoench

WFO wfo-0000388701 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Odontites vulgaris, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. a Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-23 / obs. 165124991
Odontites vulgaris, photographed by Елена Патерикина
fig. b Елена Патерикина, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163137081
Odontites vulgaris, photographed by Jon Mortin
fig. c Jon Mortin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 159239154
Odontites vulgaris, photographed by Todd Boland
fig. d Todd Boland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158118986
Odontites vulgaris, photographed by Piermario Maculan
fig. e Piermario Maculan, CC0 1.0 / obs. 157107227
Odontites vulgaris, photographed by Tomas Pocius
fig. f Tomas Pocius, CC0 1.0 / obs. 167266540
Odontites vulgaris, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. g Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 155657107
Odontites vulgaris, photographed by Grzegorz Grzejszczak
fig. h Grzegorz Grzejszczak, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 178914851

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Native range 56 botanical countries

Regions where Odontites vulgaris is native: Afghanistan, Altay, Buryatiya, China North-Central, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Irkutsk, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Manchuria, North Caucasus, Qinghai, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Tuva, Uzbekistan, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutiya, Albania, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Krym, Netherlands, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sicilia, South European Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine AfghanistanAltayBuryatiyaChina North-CentralChitaInner MongoliaIranIrkutskKazakhstanKirgizstanKrasnoyarskManchuriaNorth CaucasusQinghaiTadzhikistanTranscaucasusTürkiyeTuvaUzbekistanWest SiberiaXinjiangYakutiyaAlbaniaAustriaBaltic StatesBelarusBelgiumBulgariaCentral European RussiaCorseCzechia-SlovakiaDenmarkEast European RussiaFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryIrelandItalyKrymNetherlandsNorth European RussiaNorthwest European RussiaNorwayNW. Balkan Pen.PolandPortugalRomaniaSiciliaSouth European RussiaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine
Native distribution of Odontites vulgaris, 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
Austria AUT
Baltic States BLT
Belarus BLR
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Corse COR
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Denmark DEN
East European Russia RUE
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Ireland IRE
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
Netherlands NET
North European Russia RUN
Northwest European Russia RUW
Norway NOR
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Portugal POR
Romania ROM
Sicilia SIC
South European Russia RUS
Spain SPA
Sweden SWE
Switzerland SWI
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
Altay ALT
Buryatiya BRY
China North-Central CHN
Chita CTA
Inner Mongolia CHI
Iran IRN
Irkutsk IRK
Kazakhstan KAZ
Kirgizstan KGZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Manchuria CHM
North Caucasus NCS
Qinghai CHQ
Tadzhikistan TZK
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Tuva TVA
Uzbekistan UZB
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX
Yakutiya YAK

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 645 in flower of 791 examined

Peak flowering in Aug. Each bar is the share of Odontites vulgaris 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. 645 of 791 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. One month has fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for it. 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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 2,022 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -25.6 °C -10.6 °C 1.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 19.2 °C 23.2 °C 26.4 °C
Annual rainfall 384 mm 650 mm 1,274 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 30 mm 106 mm 256 mm

It is found where winters are arctic. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 2,022 research-grade observations of Odontites vulgaris 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. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 47 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.

  • Bartsia odontites (L.) Huds.
  • Bartsia serotina (Dumort.) Bertol.
  • Euphrasia latifolia Schur
  • Euphrasia odontites L.
  • Euphrasia odontites prol. serotinus (Coss. & Germ.) Rouy
  • Euphrasia odontites var. angustifolia Coss. & Germ.
  • Euphrasia odontites var. pratensis Wirtg.
  • Euphrasia serotina Lam.
  • Euphrasia serotina var. sicula Guss.
  • Odontites hydrophilis Sennen
  • Odontites jaubertianus subsp. siculus (Guss.) Nyman
  • Odontites leptocheilos Sennen
  • Odontites odontites (L.) Wettst.
  • Odontites pellegrinii Sennen
  • Odontites pratensis Borbás
  • Odontites puigii Sennen
  • Odontites ruber Besser
  • Odontites ruber Gilib.
  • Odontites ruber subsp. rothmaleri U.Schneid.
  • Odontites ruber subsp. serotinus (Coss. & Germ.) Maire & Petitm.
  • Odontites ruber subsp. siculus (Guss.) Pignatti
  • Odontites ruber var. serotinus Coss. & Germ.
  • Odontites rubra Opiz
  • Odontites rubra Gilib.

and 23 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.

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.