Phyteuma ovatumHonck.

WFO wfo-0000817425 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Phyteuma ovatum, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. a Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-30 / obs. 201879665
Phyteuma ovatum, photographed by Emanuele Santarelli
fig. b Emanuele Santarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 144496510
Phyteuma ovatum, photographed by Ljaž
fig. c Ljaž, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205210677
Phyteuma ovatum, photographed by Ljaž
fig. d Ljaž, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205101274
Phyteuma ovatum, photographed by Tobias Schönberg
fig. e Tobias Schönberg, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203899691
Phyteuma ovatum, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. f Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162941135
Phyteuma ovatum, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. g Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145878756
Phyteuma ovatum, photographed by Ljaž
fig. h Ljaž, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 142371611

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Phyteuma ovatum is native: Austria, France, Germany, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Switzerland AustriaFranceGermanyItalyNW. Balkan Pen.Switzerland
Native distribution of Phyteuma ovatum, 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
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 99 in flower of 109 examined

Peak flowering in Aug. Each bar is the share of Phyteuma ovatum 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. 99 of 109 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 8 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 20 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 alpestre Rouy
  • Phyteuma haleri All.
  • Phyteuma halleri f. brevibracteatum Rich.Schulz
  • Phyteuma halleri f. longibracteatum Rich.Schulz
  • Phyteuma halleri f. macrophyllum Rich.Schulz
  • Phyteuma halleri f. microphyllum Rich.Schulz
  • Phyteuma halleri f. pilosum Rich.Schulz
  • Phyteuma halleri f. pubescens Rich.Schulz
  • Phyteuma halleri f. silvaticum Rich.Schulz
  • Phyteuma halleri f. umbrosum Rich.Schulz
  • Phyteuma halleri var. caerulescens Bonnet
  • Phyteuma halleri var. coeruleum Rich.Schulz
  • Phyteuma halleri var. cordifolium Rich.Schulz
  • Phyteuma halleri var. glabriflora Rouy
  • Phyteuma halleri var. pseudonigrum Murr
  • Phyteuma ovale Hoppe
  • Phyteuma spicatum subsp. alpestre (Godr.) Kerguélen
  • Phyteuma spicatum var. alpestre Godr.
  • Phyteuma spicatum var. rapunculus Pers.
  • Phyteuma urticifolium [Clairv.]

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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