Pilosella echioides(Lumn.) F.W.Schultz & Sch.Bip.

WFO wfo-0000132874 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Pilosella echioides, photographed by Patrick Hacker
fig. a Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-02 / obs. 195460058
Pilosella echioides, photographed by Grzegorz Grzejszczak
fig. b Grzegorz Grzejszczak, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 178012116
Pilosella echioides, photographed by Alexander Dubynin
fig. c Alexander Dubynin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 106624648
Pilosella echioides, photographed by Igor Balashov
fig. d Igor Balashov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152705768
Pilosella echioides, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. e Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171886504
Pilosella echioides, photographed by Konstantin Grebennikov
fig. f Konstantin Grebennikov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 143106609
Pilosella echioides, photographed by Stanislav Murashkin
fig. g Stanislav Murashkin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 141459184
Pilosella echioides, photographed by Анна Митрошенкова
fig. h Анна Митрошенкова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 141649357

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Native range 35 botanical countries

Regions where Pilosella echioides is native: Altay, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Lebanon-Syria, Mongolia, North Caucasus, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Tuva, Uzbekistan, West Siberia, Xinjiang, West Himalaya, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, East European Russia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, South European Russia, Switzerland, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine AltayIranIraqKazakhstanKirgizstanKrasnoyarskLebanon-SyriaMongoliaNorth CaucasusTadzhikistanTranscaucasusTürkiyeTuvaUzbekistanWest SiberiaXinjiangWest HimalayaAustriaBaltic StatesBelarusBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaEast European RussiaGermanyGreeceHungaryKrymNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSouth European RussiaSwitzerlandTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine
Native distribution of Pilosella echioides, 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
Baltic States BLT
Belarus BLR
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
East European Russia RUE
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Switzerland SWI
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Kazakhstan KAZ
Kirgizstan KGZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Mongolia MON
North Caucasus NCS
Tadzhikistan TZK
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Tuva TVA
Uzbekistan UZB
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX
West Himalaya WHM ASIA-TROPICAL

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 859 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -17.3 °C -10.7 °C -4.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 23.2 °C 25.3 °C 27.4 °C
Annual rainfall 415 mm 548 mm 673 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 59 mm 100 mm 120 mm

It is found where winters are severely cold. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 859 research-grade observations of Pilosella echioides that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 30 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.

  • Hieracium asiaticum (Nägeli & Peter) Üksip
  • Hieracium asiaticum N.P.
  • Hieracium donetzicum Kotov
  • Hieracium echioides Lumn.
  • Hieracium echioides subsp. asiaticum Nägeli & Peter
  • Hieracium echioides subsp. echioides
  • Hieracium echioides subsp. echiophyllum Nägeli & Peter
  • Hieracium echioides subsp. freynii Nägeli & Peter
  • Hieracium echioides subsp. macrocymum Nägeli & Peter
  • Hieracium echioides subsp. malacotrichum Nägeli & Peter
  • Hieracium echioides subsp. proceriforme Nägeli & Peter
  • Hieracium echioides var. echioides
  • Hieracium echioides var. freynii (Nägeli & Peter) Nyár.
  • Hieracium echioides var. macrocymum (Nägeli & Peter) Nyár.
  • Hieracium freynii (Nägeli & Peter) Üksip
  • Hieracium macrocymum (Nägeli & Peter) Üksip
  • Hieracium malacotrichum (Nägeli & Peter) Üksip
  • Hieracium proceriforme (Nägeli & Peter) Zahn
  • Hieracium proceriforme subsp. malacotrichum (Nägeli & Peter) Zahn
  • Hieracium proceriforme subsp. proceriforme
  • Hieracium tjumentzevii Serg. & Üksip
  • Pilosella asiatica (Nägeli & Peter) Schljakov
  • Pilosella echioides subsp. freynii (Nägeli & Peter) Soják
  • Pilosella echioides subsp. macrocyma (Nägeli & Peter) Soják

and 6 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.

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.