Phyteuma globulariifolium

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 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.

Phyteuma globulariifolium, photographed by Fabien Piednoir — fig. a Fabien Piednoir, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2016-08-30 / obs. 4734635

Phyteuma globulariifolium, photographed by Karsten Rohweder — fig. c Karsten Rohweder, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60861987

Phyteuma globulariifolium, photographed by Aaron Iemma — fig. d Aaron Iemma, CC0 1.0 / obs. 45835401

Phyteuma globulariifolium, photographed by ROMAGNOLO Filippo — fig. e ROMAGNOLO Filippo, CC0 1.0 / obs. 83715877

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Native distribution of Phyteuma globulariifolium, 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
Italy	ITA
Spain	SPA
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 32 in flower of 35 examined

100%

93%

Proportion of examined Phyteuma globulariifolium in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	0	too few examined
Feb	0	0	too few examined
Mar	0	0	too few examined
Apr	0	0	too few examined
May	0	0	too few examined
Jun	2	3	too few examined
Jul	15	15	100%	80% to 100%
Aug	14	15	93%	70% to 99%
Sep	1	1	too few examined
Oct	0	0	too few examined
Nov	0	1	too few examined
Dec	0	0	too few examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Phyteuma globulariifolium 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. 32 of 35 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 10 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 23 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 capituliforme Rochel
Phyteuma globulariifolium subsp. pedemontanum (R.Schulz) Bech.
Phyteuma hemisphaericum var. transsilvanicum Schur
Phyteuma nanum Schur
Phyteuma parviflorum Mutel
Phyteuma pauciflorum L.
Phyteuma pauciflorum f. albiflorum Rich.Schulz
Phyteuma pauciflorum f. asteranthum Rich.Schulz
Phyteuma pauciflorum f. integrum Rich.Schulz
Phyteuma pauciflorum f. nanum Rich.Schulz
Phyteuma pauciflorum f. simplex Rich.Schulz
Phyteuma pauciflorum f. vulgare Rich.Schulz
Phyteuma pauciflorum subsp. globulariifolium (Sternb. & Hoppe) Nyman
Phyteuma pauciflorum subsp. pedemontanum (Rich.Schulz) P.Fourn.
Phyteuma pauciflorum var. acutifolium Rich.Schulz
Phyteuma pauciflorum var. macrophyllum Schur
Phyteuma pauciflorum var. nanum (Schur) Schur
Phyteuma pauciflorum var. nanum Rich.Schulz
Phyteuma pauciflorum var. tirolense Rich.Schulz
Phyteuma pedemontanum Rich.Schulz
Phyteuma pedemontanum f. humillimum Rich.Schulz
Phyteuma pedemontanum f. intermedium Rich.Schulz
Rapunculus pauciflorus Mill.

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.

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.