Physochlaina physaloides(L.) G.Don

WFO wfo-0001025078 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Physochlaina physaloides, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. a Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-12 / obs. 197047976
Physochlaina physaloides, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. b Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196811173
Physochlaina physaloides, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. c Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196810802
Physochlaina physaloides, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. d Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196810715
Physochlaina physaloides, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. e Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194769163
Physochlaina physaloides, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. f Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 38252052
Physochlaina physaloides, photographed by Татьяна Фирсова
fig. g Татьяна Фирсова, CC0 1.0 / obs. 70357140
Physochlaina physaloides, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. h Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 130669837

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Physochlaina physaloides is native: Altay, Amur, Buryatiya, China North-Central, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Kazakhstan, Krasnoyarsk, Manchuria, Mongolia, Tuva, West Siberia, Xinjiang, France, Italy AltayAmurBuryatiyaChina North-CentralChitaInner MongoliaIrkutskKazakhstanKrasnoyarskManchuriaMongoliaTuvaWest SiberiaXinjiangFranceItaly
Native distribution of Physochlaina physaloides, 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
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Amur AMU
Buryatiya BRY
China North-Central CHN
Chita CTA
Inner Mongolia CHI
Irkutsk IRK
Kazakhstan KAZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
Tuva TVA
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX
France FRA EUROPE
Italy ITA

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 42 in flower of 57 examined

Peak flowering in Feb. Each bar is the share of Physochlaina physaloides 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. 42 of 57 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 5 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.

  • Hyoscyamus physalodes L.
  • Physochlaina dahurica Miers
  • Physochlaina pseudophysaloides Pascher
  • Pulmonaria hirta L.
  • Scopolia physaloides (L.) Dunal

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.

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