Phyteuma vagneriA.Kern.

WFO wfo-0000816776 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 3 separate observations

Phyteuma vagneri, photographed by Denys Vynokurov
fig. a Denys Vynokurov, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-10-29 / obs. 103509659
Phyteuma vagneri, photographed by xulescu_g
fig. b xulescu_g, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 91488858
Phyteuma vagneri, photographed by Valerii Darmostuk
fig. c Valerii Darmostuk, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 45887880

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Regions where Phyteuma vagneri is native: Romania, Ukraine RomaniaUkraine
Native distribution of Phyteuma vagneri, 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
Romania ROM EUROPE
Ukraine UKR

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.

Also published as 6 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 atropurpureum Schur
  • Phyteuma nigrum var. atropurpureum Schur
  • Phyteuma vagneri f. alpinum Rich.Schulz
  • Phyteuma vagneri f. brevibracteatum Rich.Schulz
  • Phyteuma vagneri f. grossidentatum Rich.Schulz
  • Phyteuma vagneri f. latibracteatum Rich.Schulz

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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