Polygala nicaeensisRisso ex W.D.J.Koch

WFO wfo-0000488889 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Polygala nicaeensis, photographed by Jens-Christian Svenning
fig. a Jens-Christian Svenning, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-18 / obs. 198663831
Polygala nicaeensis, photographed by Giuliana Pirotta
fig. b Giuliana Pirotta, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196982319
Polygala nicaeensis, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. c Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198324350
Polygala nicaeensis, photographed by Nico
fig. d Nico, CC0 1.0 / obs. 189221579
Polygala nicaeensis, photographed by Nico
fig. e Nico, CC0 1.0 / obs. 189220429
Polygala nicaeensis, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. f Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 135526536
Polygala nicaeensis, photographed by Aissa Djamel Filali
fig. g Aissa Djamel Filali, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 74077058
Polygala nicaeensis, photographed by Flora_DUMO
fig. h Flora_DUMO, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175595363

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Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Polygala nicaeensis is native: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, East Aegean Is., Albania, Belarus, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Corse, East European Russia, France, Greece, Italy, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., South European Russia, Spain, Ukraine AlgeriaMoroccoTunisiaEast Aegean Is.AlbaniaBelarusBulgariaCentral European RussiaCorseEast European RussiaFranceGreeceItalyKrymNW. Balkan Pen.South European RussiaSpainUkraine
Native distribution of Polygala nicaeensis, 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
Belarus BLR
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Corse COR
East European Russia RUE
France FRA
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
South European Russia RUS
Spain SPA
Ukraine UKR
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
East Aegean Is. EAI ASIA-TEMPERATE

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 94 in flower of 95 examined

Peak flowering in Apr. Each bar is the share of Polygala nicaeensis 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. 94 of 95 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 12 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 caesalpini Bubani
  • Polygala coursiereana Pomel
  • Polygala cretacea Kotov
  • Polygala gariodiana Jord. & Fourr. ex Verl.
  • Polygala hispanica Sennen
  • Polygala mediterranea (Chodat) Dalla Torre & Sarnth.
  • Polygala nemorivaga Pomel
  • Polygala nicaeensis subsp. forojulensis (A.Kern.) Graebn.
  • Polygala numidica Pomel
  • Polygala thuringiaca Spreng.
  • Polygala versicolor Pomel
  • Polygala vulgaris subsp. mediterranea (Chodat) O.Bolòs & Vigo

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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