Orobanche variegataWallr.

WFO wfo-0000388083 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Orobanche variegata, photographed by Aissa Djamel Filali
fig. a Aissa Djamel Filali, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2020-05-04 / obs. 71588796
Orobanche variegata, photographed by Aissa Djamel Filali
fig. b Aissa Djamel Filali, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 34869174
Orobanche variegata, photographed by Aissa Djamel Filali
fig. c Aissa Djamel Filali, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 120413045
Orobanche variegata, photographed by Riccardo Rocca
fig. d Riccardo Rocca, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196544353
Orobanche variegata, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. e Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 131986045
Orobanche variegata, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. f Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 131832123
Orobanche variegata, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. g Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126487789
Orobanche variegata, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. h Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 122432341

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Orobanche variegata is native: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Albania, Corse, France, Italy, Sardegna, Sicilia AlgeriaMoroccoTunisiaAlbaniaCorseFranceItalySicilia Sardegna
Native distribution of Orobanche variegata, 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
Corse COR
France FRA
Italy ITA
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN

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 131 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -0.3 °C 4.9 °C 9.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 25.0 °C 30.2 °C 33.8 °C
Annual rainfall 502 mm 705 mm 978 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 21 mm 39 mm 72 mm

It is found where winters bring light 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 131 research-grade observations of Orobanche variegata 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 27 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.

  • Catodiacrum variegatum (Wallr.) Dulac
  • Orobanche condensata Lojac.
  • Orobanche condensata Moris
  • Orobanche condensata subsp. spartii (Guss.) Batt.
  • Orobanche condensata subsp. variegata (Wallr.) Batt.
  • Orobanche cytisi-laburni F.W.Schultz
  • Orobanche foetida subsp. variegata (Wallr.) Ball
  • Orobanche foetida var. lutea Biv.
  • Orobanche grandiflora C.Presl
  • Orobanche lutea (Biv.) Lojac.
  • Orobanche purpurea Raf.
  • Orobanche rubra Raf.
  • Orobanche satyrus De Not.
  • Orobanche sicula Lojac.
  • Orobanche spartii Guss.
  • Orobanche spartii var. lutea (Biv.) Guss.
  • Orobanche spartii var. rubra Guss.
  • Orobanche speciosa Moris
  • Orobanche strigosa Salzm. ex Ball
  • Orobanche variegata var. bonensis Beck
  • Orobanche variegata var. integrisepala Maire
  • Orobanche variegata var. nepae Maire
  • Orobanche variegata var. porphyrostigma Maire
  • Orobanche variegata var. pseudosatyrus Maire

and 3 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.