Polygala major | BotanAI

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Polygala major, photographed by Zoltán Stekkelpak — fig. a Zoltán Stekkelpak, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-30 / obs. 201848282

Polygala major, photographed by Patrick Hacker — fig. b Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161573523

Polygala major, photographed by Виктория Билоус — fig. c Виктория Билоус, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174039609

Polygala major, photographed by Алена Ручка — fig. d Алена Ручка, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150665111

Polygala major, photographed by Tatiana Strus — fig. f Tatiana Strus, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 139988571

Polygala major, photographed by Anna Shuliko — fig. g Anna Shuliko, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 138587624

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Native distribution of Polygala major, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Albania	ALB	EUROPE
Austria	AUT
Bulgaria	BUL
Czechia-Slovakia	CZE
Greece	GRC
Hungary	HUN
Italy	ITA
Krym	KRY
NW. Balkan Pen.	YUG
Romania	ROM
Türkiye-in-Europe	TUE
Ukraine	UKR
Iran	IRN	ASIA-TEMPERATE
North Caucasus	NCS
Transcaucasus	TCS
Türkiye	TUR

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 167 in flower of 170 examined

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Proportion of examined Polygala major in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	0	too few examined
Feb	0	0	too few examined
Mar	0	0	too few examined
Apr	22	23	96%	79% to 99%
May	80	81	99%	93% to 100%
Jun	38	38	100%	91% to 100%
Jul	8	8	100%	68% to 100%
Aug	3	4	too few examined
Sep	3	3	too few examined
Oct	6	6	100%	61% to 100%
Nov	5	5	100%	57% to 100%
Dec	2	2	too few examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Polygala major 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. 167 of 170 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 6 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 amoenissima Tamamsch.
Polygala grandis Pall.
Polygala magna Georgi
Polygala moldavica Kotov
Polygala neglecta Kern.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
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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