Pleurospermum austriacumHoffm.

WFO wfo-0000392553 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Pleurospermum austriacum, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. a Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-09-11 / obs. 156887163
Pleurospermum austriacum, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. b Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107585584
Pleurospermum austriacum, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. c Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 84241724
Pleurospermum austriacum, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. d Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 80081019
Pleurospermum austriacum, photographed by Wolfgang Jauch
fig. e Wolfgang Jauch, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 88605364
Pleurospermum austriacum, photographed by Vladimír Fuka
fig. f Vladimír Fuka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170903819
Pleurospermum austriacum, photographed by Ljaž
fig. g Ljaž, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 141240383
Pleurospermum austriacum, photographed by carnifex
fig. h carnifex, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 86134650

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Pleurospermum austriacum is native: Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine AustriaBaltic StatesBelarusBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGermanyHungaryItalyNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSwedenSwitzerlandUkraine
Native distribution of Pleurospermum austriacum, 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
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Germany GER
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Sweden SWE
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR

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 9 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.

  • Ligusticum archangelica Geners. ex DC.
  • Ligusticum austriacum L.
  • Ligusticum gmelinii Vill.
  • Ligusticum hacquetii Guss.
  • Physospermum gussonei Lag.
  • Pleurospermum lithuanieum Downar
  • Selinum pleurospermum E.H.L.Krause
  • Thysselinum grandiflorum Moench
  • Tropentis sibiricum Raf.

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.

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