Plantago atrataHoppe

WFO wfo-0000487646 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Plantago atrata, photographed by Attila Oláh
fig. a Attila Oláh, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-26 / obs. 201188605
Plantago atrata, photographed by Attila Oláh
fig. b Attila Oláh, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200823591
Plantago atrata, photographed by hecklemore
fig. c hecklemore, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 142730600
Plantago atrata, photographed by agujaceratops
fig. d agujaceratops, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 141151451
Plantago atrata, photographed by agujaceratops
fig. e agujaceratops, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 141160710
Plantago atrata, photographed by Wolfgang Jauch
fig. f Wolfgang Jauch, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 146397606
Plantago atrata, photographed by Wolfgang Jauch
fig. g Wolfgang Jauch, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 137580068
Plantago atrata, photographed by Emanuele Santarelli
fig. h Emanuele Santarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 74970075

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
05012101
Filed as
Plantago atrata Hoppe
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
not recorded
Origin
not recorded
The sheet
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Native range 22 botanical countries

Regions where Plantago atrata is native: Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Pakistan, Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine CyprusIranIraqNorth CaucasusTranscaucasusTürkiyePakistanAlbaniaAustriaBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGermanyGreeceItalyKrymNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSpainSwitzerlandUkraine
Native distribution of Plantago atrata, 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
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Bulgaria BUL
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
North Caucasus NCS
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Pakistan PAK 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 331 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -17.1 °C -12.0 °C -7.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 12.9 °C 16.6 °C 22.5 °C
Annual rainfall 737 mm 1,633 mm 2,852 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 69 mm 275 mm 552 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 331 research-grade observations of Plantago atrata 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 23 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.

  • Plantago argentea subsp. fuscescens (Jord.) Bonnier & Layens
  • Plantago atrata subsp. saxatilis (M.Bieb.) Pilg.
  • Plantago atrata var. angustifolia Pilg.
  • Plantago atrata var. spadicea (Pilg.) Pilg.
  • Plantago atrata var. sudetica (Pilg.) Pilg.
  • Plantago crassinervis Hornem.
  • Plantago fuscescens Jord.
  • Plantago graeca Halácsy
  • Plantago holosericea Roem. & Schult.
  • Plantago karakabanica Boiss. & A.Huet
  • Plantago montana Griseb.
  • Plantago montana subsp. carpatica Soó
  • Plantago montana subsp. fuscescens (Jord.) Murr
  • Plantago montana subsp. spadicea Pilg.
  • Plantago montana var. carpatica Pilg.
  • Plantago montana var. holosericea (Roem. & Schult.) Gaudin
  • Plantago montana var. sudetica Pilg.
  • Plantago nigricans Herb. ex Roem. & Schult.
  • Plantago quinquenervia Schltdl. ex Roem. & Schult.
  • Plantago saxatilis M.Bieb.
  • Plantago saxatilis var. adnivalis Nábělek
  • Plantago scirpoides Lam.
  • Plantago sphaerocephala Poir.

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.