Polygala amarellaCrantz

WFO wfo-0000484045 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Polygala amarella, photographed by art_leostrin
fig. a art_leostrin, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-30 / obs. 203445175
Polygala amarella, photographed by Todd Patterson
fig. b Todd Patterson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195316199
Polygala amarella, photographed by Todd Patterson
fig. c Todd Patterson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192309266
Polygala amarella, photographed by Hanna Larsson
fig. d Hanna Larsson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 124558776
Polygala amarella, photographed by Eugene Popov
fig. e Eugene Popov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 79642836
Polygala amarella, photographed by Eugene Popov
fig. f Eugene Popov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 76681231
Polygala amarella, photographed by Eugene Popov
fig. g Eugene Popov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 76681698
Polygala amarella, photographed by Eugene Popov
fig. h Eugene Popov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 74694210

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Native range 25 botanical countries

Regions where Polygala amarella is native: West Siberia, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine West SiberiaAustriaBaltic StatesBelarusBelgiumBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaDenmarkEast European RussiaFinlandFranceGermanyHungaryItalyNorth European RussiaNorthwest European RussiaNorwayNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSwedenSwitzerlandUkraine
Native distribution of Polygala amarella, 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
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Denmark DEN
East European Russia RUE
Finland FIN
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
North European Russia RUN
Northwest European Russia RUW
Norway NOR
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Sweden SWE
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR
West Siberia WSB ASIA-TEMPERATE

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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.

Flowering 51 in flower of 53 examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Polygala amarella observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 51 of 53 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 9 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 5 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.

  • Polygala amarella subsp. austriaca (Crantz) Dostál
  • Polygala austriaca Crantz
  • Polygala decipiens Besser
  • Polygala fatua Wallr.
  • Polygala subvirgata Gand.

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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