Plagiobothrys linifolius(Lehm.) I.M.Johnst.

WFO wfo-0001216036 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 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.

Plagiobothrys linifolius, photographed by Nolan Exe
fig. a Nolan Exe, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-02-03 / obs. 184967543
Plagiobothrys linifolius, photographed by Nolan Exe
fig. b Nolan Exe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184967569
Plagiobothrys linifolius, photographed by Nolan Exe
fig. c Nolan Exe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184967590
Plagiobothrys linifolius, photographed by Nolan Exe
fig. d Nolan Exe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184967511

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Plagiobothrys linifolius is native: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru BoliviaColombiaEcuadorPeru
Native distribution of Plagiobothrys linifolius, 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
Bolivia BOL SOUTHERN AMERICA
Colombia CLM
Ecuador ECU
Peru PER

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 15 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.

  • Allocarya humilis f. pygmaea (Kunth) Brand
  • Allocarya linifolia (Lehm.) J.F.Macbr.
  • Allocarya pygmaea (Kunth) J.F.Macbr.
  • Anchusa lanceolata Willd. ex Steud.
  • Anchusa leucantha Willd. ex DC.
  • Anchusa linifolia Lehm.
  • Anchusa oppositifolia Kunth
  • Anchusa pygmaea Kunth
  • Antiphytum linifolium (Lehm.) DC.
  • Eritrichium humilis var. congestum Wedd.
  • Eritrichium linifolium Wedd.
  • Eritrichium pygmaeum (Kunth) Wedd.
  • Krynitzkia linifolia (Lehm.) A.Gray
  • Lithospermum alpinum Willd. ex Roem. & Schult.
  • Plagiobothrys pygmaeus (Kunth) I.M.Johnst.

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.