Onosma simplicissima

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Onosma simplicissima, photographed by Svyatoslav Knyazev — fig. c Svyatoslav Knyazev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201546781

Onosma simplicissima, photographed by Nina Filippova — fig. e Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196565808

Onosma simplicissima, photographed by Aleksei Baushev — fig. f Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196515633

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Native distribution of Onosma simplicissima, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Altay	ALT	ASIA-TEMPERATE
Kazakhstan	KAZ
Krasnoyarsk	KRA
West Siberia	WSB
Xinjiang	CHX
East European Russia	RUE	EUROPE
South European Russia	RUS
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.

Flowering 114 in flower of 141 examined

63%

91%

95%

71%

40%

Proportion of examined Onosma simplicissima in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	0	too few examined
Feb	0	0	too few examined
Mar	0	0	too few examined
Apr	5	8	63%	31% to 86%
May	50	55	91%	80% to 96%
Jun	40	42	95%	84% to 99%
Jul	15	21	71%	50% to 86%
Aug	4	10	40%	17% to 69%
Sep	0	2	too few examined
Oct	0	2	too few examined
Nov	0	0	too few examined
Dec	0	1	too few examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Onosma simplicissima 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. 114 of 141 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 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 4 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.

Onosma sibirica Lam.
Onosma simplex Gaertn.
Onosma tanaitica Klokov
Onosma volgensis Dobrocz.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
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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