Phyteuma betonicifolium

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Phyteuma betonicifolium, photographed by Christoph Moning — fig. b Christoph Moning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 144906948

Phyteuma betonicifolium, photographed by Jason Grant — fig. d Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 138102583

Phyteuma betonicifolium, photographed by Wolfgang Jauch — fig. e Wolfgang Jauch, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 89398457

Phyteuma betonicifolium, photographed by Emanuele Santarelli — fig. f Emanuele Santarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 89394180

Phyteuma betonicifolium, photographed by Irene Saltini — fig. g Irene Saltini, CC0 1.0 / obs. 85042452

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Native distribution of Phyteuma betonicifolium, 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
Austria	AUT	EUROPE
France	FRA
Germany	GER
Italy	ITA
NW. Balkan Pen.	YUG
Switzerland	SWI

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 194 in flower of 199 examined

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Proportion of examined Phyteuma betonicifolium in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	1	1	too few examined
Feb	0	0	too few examined
Mar	0	1	too few examined
Apr	9	10	90%	60% to 98%
May	23	24	96%	80% to 99%
Jun	47	48	98%	89% to 100%
Jul	77	78	99%	93% to 100%
Aug	26	26	100%	87% to 100%
Sep	3	3	too few examined
Oct	3	3	too few examined
Nov	3	3	too few examined
Dec	2	2	too few examined

Peak flowering in Aug. Each bar is the share of Phyteuma betonicifolium 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. 194 of 199 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 18 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.

Phyteuma betonicifolium f. alpestre Rich.Schulz
Phyteuma betonicifolium f. glabrum Rich.Schulz
Phyteuma betonicifolium f. pubescens (A.DC.) Rich.Schulz
Phyteuma betonicifolium f. rhaeticum Rich.Schulz
Phyteuma betonicifolium f. vulgare Rich.Schulz
Phyteuma betonicifolium var. lanceolatum Rich.Schulz
Phyteuma betonicifolium var. pubescens A.DC.
Phyteuma betonicifolium var. sessilifolium A.DC.
Phyteuma elegans Hegetschw.
Phyteuma michelii subsp. betonicifolium (Vill.) Nyman
Phyteuma michelii subsp. scaposum (Rich.Schulz) P.Fourn.
Phyteuma michelii var. sessilifolium (A.DC.) Rouy
Phyteuma michelii var. veronicifolium (Schrad. ex A.DC.) Nyman
Phyteuma scaposum Rich.Schulz
Phyteuma scaposum f. cordifolium Rich.Schulz
Phyteuma scaposum f. glabrum Rich.Schulz
Phyteuma spicatum var. betonicifolium (Vill.) Lapeyr.
Phyteuma veronicifolium Schrad. ex A.DC.

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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