Pilosella floribunda(Wimm. & Grab.) Fr.

WFO wfo-0000122919 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Pilosella floribunda, photographed by Repina Tatyana
fig. a Repina Tatyana, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-06-20 / obs. 138278940
Pilosella floribunda, photographed by Repina Tatyana
fig. b Repina Tatyana, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 43299543
Pilosella floribunda, photographed by Repina Tatyana
fig. c Repina Tatyana, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 41596554
Pilosella floribunda, photographed by Repina Tatyana
fig. d Repina Tatyana, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 47412457
Pilosella floribunda, photographed by Étienne Lacroix-Carignan
fig. e Étienne Lacroix-Carignan, CC0 1.0 / obs. 68923394
Pilosella floribunda, photographed by Tom Erler
fig. f Tom Erler, CC0 1.0 / obs. 140296692
Pilosella floribunda, photographed by Étienne Lacroix-Carignan
fig. g Étienne Lacroix-Carignan, CC0 1.0 / obs. 110806033
Pilosella floribunda, photographed by desertnaturalist
fig. h desertnaturalist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 65128376

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Pilosella floribunda is native: Baltic States, Central European Russia, East European Russia, Finland, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Norway, Sweden Baltic StatesCentral European RussiaEast European RussiaFinlandNorth European RussiaNorthwest European RussiaNorwaySweden
Native distribution of Pilosella floribunda, 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
Baltic States BLT EUROPE
Central European Russia RUC
East European Russia RUE
Finland FIN
North European Russia RUN
Northwest European Russia RUW
Norway NOR
Sweden SWE

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 199 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -20.3 °C -13.3 °C -2.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 14.4 °C 17.5 °C 25.2 °C
Annual rainfall 640 mm 1,321 mm 2,363 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 85 mm 230 mm 313 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 199 research-grade observations of Pilosella floribunda 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 93 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 ambiguum subsp. vitellinum (Norrl.) Zahn
  • Hieracium apatorium (Nägeli & Peter) Üksip
  • Hieracium apatorium N.P.
  • Hieracium arvicola subsp. apatorium Nägeli & Peter
  • Hieracium arvicola subsp. assimilatum (Norrl.) Nägeli & Peter
  • Hieracium assimilatum (Norrl.) Norrl.
  • Hieracium atramentarium (Nägeli & Peter) Zahn
  • Hieracium auricula L.
  • Hieracium baenitzii (Nägeli & Peter) Üksip
  • Hieracium baenitzii N.P.
  • Hieracium brachycephalum (Norrl.) Norrl.
  • Hieracium depilans Dahlst.
  • Hieracium erythrocaule (Hamb.) Norrl.
  • Hieracium floribundum Wimm. & Grab.
  • Hieracium floribundum N.P.
  • Hieracium floribundum subsp. atramentarium Nägeli & Peter
  • Hieracium floribundum subsp. atrocroceum Peter
  • Hieracium floribundum subsp. baenitzii Nägeli & Peter
  • Hieracium floribundum subsp. erythrocaule Hamb.
  • Hieracium floribundum subsp. floribundum
  • Hieracium floribundum subsp. islandiciforme Dahlst.
  • Hieracium floribundum subsp. islandicum (Lange) Dahlst.
  • Hieracium floribundum subsp. regimontanum Nägeli & Peter
  • Hieracium floribundum subsp. regiomontanum Nägeli & Peter

and 69 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.