Pilosella hoppeana(Schult.) F.W.Schultz & Sch.Bip.

WFO wfo-0000078117 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Pilosella hoppeana, photographed by Wolfgang Jauch
fig. a Wolfgang Jauch, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-07-11 / obs. 142962572

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Native range 10 botanical countries

Regions where Pilosella hoppeana is native: Türkiye, Austria, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, Germany, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Sicilia, Switzerland, Türkiye-in-Europe TürkiyeAustriaBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaGermanyItalyNW. Balkan Pen.SiciliaSwitzerlandTürkiye-in-Europe
Native distribution of Pilosella hoppeana, 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
Bulgaria BUL
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Germany GER
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Sicilia SIC
Switzerland SWI
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Türkiye TUR ASIA-TEMPERATE

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 35 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -16.2 °C -12.7 °C 0.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 14.0 °C 16.7 °C 25.4 °C
Annual rainfall 1,034 mm 1,887 mm 2,405 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 172 mm 282 mm 487 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 35 research-grade observations of Pilosella hoppeana 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 18 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 cilicicum N.P.
  • Hieracium hoppeanum subsp. cilicicum Nägeli & Peter
  • Hieracium hoppeanum subsp. hoppeanum
  • Hieracium hoppeanum subsp. macranthum (Ten.) Nägeli & Peter
  • Hieracium hoppeanum subsp. virentisquamum Nägeli & Peter
  • Hieracium hoppeanum subsp. viridiatrum Nägeli & Peter
  • Hieracium macrolepium Nägeli & Peter
  • Hieracium macrolepium (Nägeli & Peter) Üksip
  • Hieracium peleterianum subsp. pinaricum Zahn
  • Hieracium pilosella subsp. hoppeanum (Schult.) Rouy
  • Hieracium pilosella subsp. macranthum (Ten.) Arcang.
  • Hieracium rubricatum subsp. macranthum (Ten.) Zahn
  • Hieracium virentisquamum (Nägeli & Peter) Prain
  • Hieracium viridiatrum (Nägeli & Peter) Prain
  • Pilosella cilicica (Nägeli & Peter) Holub
  • Pilosella hoppeana subsp. isaurica Hub.-Mor.
  • Pilosella hoppeana subsp. virentisquama (Nägeli & Peter) H.P.Fuchs
  • Pilosella virentisquama (Nägeli & Peter) Sennikov

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.