Ostericum palustre(Besser) Besser

WFO wfo-0000384777 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / 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.

Ostericum palustre, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. a Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-09 / obs. 204679191
Ostericum palustre, photographed by Alexander Dubynin
fig. b Alexander Dubynin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 77921998
Ostericum palustre, photographed by Alexander Dubynin
fig. c Alexander Dubynin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 77911862
Ostericum palustre, photographed by Силаева Татьяна Борисовна
fig. d Силаева Татьяна Борисовна, CC0 1.0 / obs. 137620742
Ostericum palustre, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. e Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204679226
Ostericum palustre, photographed by Юлия Медведько
fig. f Юлия Медведько, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 130635905
Ostericum palustre, photographed by Alexander Dubynin
fig. g Alexander Dubynin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107710659
Ostericum palustre, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. h Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 144070742

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Native range 17 botanical countries

Regions where Ostericum palustre is native: Altay, Kazakhstan, North Caucasus, West Siberia, Baltic States, Belarus, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, East European Russia, Germany, Hungary, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, South European Russia, Ukraine AltayKazakhstanNorth CaucasusWest SiberiaBaltic StatesBelarusBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaEast European RussiaGermanyHungaryNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSouth European RussiaUkraine
Native distribution of Ostericum palustre, 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
Baltic States BLT EUROPE
Belarus BLR
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
East European Russia RUE
Germany GER
Hungary HUN
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Ukraine UKR
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Kazakhstan KAZ
North Caucasus NCS
West Siberia WSB

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.

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.

  • Angelica palustris (Besser) Hoffm.
  • Angelica pancicii Vandas ex Velen.
  • Angelica pratensis M.Bieb. ex Spreng.
  • Angelica pratensis M.Bieb. ex Fisch.
  • Gomphopetalum albiflorum Turcz.
  • Imperatoria palustris Besser
  • Ostericum albiflorum (Turcz.) Kitag.
  • Ostericum pratense Hoffm.
  • Selinum odoratum Bernh. ex Spreng.
  • Selinum ostericum E.H.L.Krause

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.