Phlomoides speciosa(Rupr.) Adylov, Kamelin & Makhm.

WFO wfo-0000269703 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 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.

Phlomoides speciosa, photographed by Maxim Shashkov
fig. a Maxim Shashkov, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-05-29 / obs. 40878455
Phlomoides speciosa, photographed by Вячеслав Юсупов
fig. b Вячеслав Юсупов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 43486867
Phlomoides speciosa, photographed by Maxim Shashkov
fig. c Maxim Shashkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 40878471
Phlomoides speciosa, photographed by Dag Endresen
fig. d Dag Endresen, CC0 1.0 / obs. 41447618
Phlomoides speciosa, photographed by Dag Endresen
fig. e Dag Endresen, CC0 1.0 / obs. 41447602
Phlomoides speciosa, photographed by Maxim Shashkov
fig. f Maxim Shashkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 40890796
Phlomoides speciosa, photographed by Maxim Shashkov
fig. g Maxim Shashkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 40880823
Phlomoides speciosa, photographed by Maxim Shashkov
fig. h Maxim Shashkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 40880842

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Phlomoides speciosa is native: Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Xinjiang, Pakistan, West Himalaya AfghanistanKazakhstanKirgizstanTadzhikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanXinjiangPakistanWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Phlomoides speciosa, 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
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
Kazakhstan KAZ
Kirgizstan KGZ
Tadzhikistan TZK
Turkmenistan TKM
Uzbekistan UZB
Xinjiang CHX
Pakistan PAK ASIA-TROPICAL
West Himalaya WHM

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.

  • Eremostachys cephalariifolia Popov
  • Eremostachys laciniata var. bipinnatifida Regel
  • Eremostachys speciosa Rupr.
  • Eremostachys speciosa var. bipinnatifida (Regel) Popov
  • Eremostachys speciosa var. subintegrifolia Popov
  • Eremostachys speciosa var. viridifolia Popov
  • Eremostachys superba var. bipinnatisecta Regel
  • Eremostachys transiliensis Regel
  • Phlomoides cephalariifolia (Popov) Adylov, Kamelin & Makhm.
  • Phlomoides speciosa var. viridifolia (Popov) C.L.Xiang & H.Peng

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.