Phyteuma spicatumL.

WFO wfo-0000816739 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Phyteuma spicatum, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. a Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205230225
Phyteuma spicatum, photographed by Josep Gesti
fig. b Josep Gesti, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 203254092
Phyteuma spicatum, photographed by Tobias Schönberg
fig. c Tobias Schönberg, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202261389
Phyteuma spicatum, photographed by Norrland
fig. d Norrland, CC0 1.0 / obs. 201825421
Phyteuma spicatum, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. e Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201504944
Phyteuma spicatum, photographed by Andreas Stiller
fig. f Andreas Stiller, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201257170
Phyteuma spicatum, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. g Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201323357
Phyteuma spicatum, photographed by Norrland
fig. h Norrland, CC0 1.0 / obs. 199720977

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Native range 21 botanical countries

Regions where Phyteuma spicatum is native: Albania, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Northwest European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine AlbaniaAustriaBaltic StatesBelarusBelgiumCzechia-SlovakiaDenmarkFranceGermanyHungaryItalyNetherlandsNorthwest European RussiaNorwayNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSpainSwitzerlandUkraine
Native distribution of Phyteuma spicatum, 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
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Baltic States BLT
Belarus BLR
Belgium BGM
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Denmark DEN
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Netherlands NET
Northwest European Russia RUW
Norway NOR
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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 561 in flower of 699 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Phyteuma spicatum 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. 561 of 699 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 54 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 abelis Sennen
  • Phyteuma ambigens Rouy
  • Phyteuma angustifolium Ledeb.
  • Phyteuma bracteatum Losa
  • Phyteuma coeruleum Dalla Torre & Sarnth.
  • Phyteuma elongatum Hegetschw.
  • Phyteuma occidentale (Rich.Schulz) G.H.Loos
  • Phyteuma pyrenaicum Sennen
  • Phyteuma pyrenaicum Rich.Schulz
  • Phyteuma pyrenaicum f. glabrescens Rich.Schulz
  • Phyteuma pyrenaicum f. glabriusculum Rich.Schulz
  • Phyteuma pyrenaicum f. glabrum Rich.Schulz
  • Phyteuma pyrenaicum f. hirsutum Rich.Schulz
  • Phyteuma pyrenaicum f. nudum Rich.Schulz
  • Phyteuma pyrenaicum f. pilosiusculum Rich.Schulz
  • Phyteuma pyrenaicum f. pilosum Rich.Schulz
  • Phyteuma pyrenaicum f. pubescens Rich.Schulz
  • Phyteuma pyrenaicum subsp. betonicoides Rich.Schulz
  • Phyteuma pyrenaicum subsp. cordifolium Rich.Schulz
  • Phyteuma pyrenaicum var. brevibracteatum Rich.Schulz
  • Phyteuma pyrenaicum var. ebracteatum Rich.Schulz
  • Phyteuma pyrenaicum var. involucratum Rich.Schulz
  • Phyteuma rapunculus Pers.
  • Phyteuma spicatum f. bicrenatum Rich.Schulz

and 30 more.

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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