Psammophiliella muralis(L.) Ikonn.

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WFO wfo-0001097626 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Psammophiliella muralis, photographed by Игорь Васильев
fig. a Игорь Васильев, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-09-13 / obs. 157308256
Psammophiliella muralis, photographed by Марина Садыкова
fig. b Марина Садыкова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 155138556
Psammophiliella muralis, photographed by Eugene Popov
fig. c Eugene Popov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 153875389
Psammophiliella muralis, photographed by Denis Otkydach
fig. d Denis Otkydach, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 153724582
Psammophiliella muralis, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. e Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 153473771
Psammophiliella muralis, photographed by Силаева Татьяна Борисовна
fig. f Силаева Татьяна Борисовна, CC0 1.0 / obs. 153487331
Psammophiliella muralis, photographed by Татьяна Горбушина
fig. g Татьяна Горбушина, CC0 1.0 / obs. 152848282
Psammophiliella muralis, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. h Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152265016

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Native range 34 botanical countries

Regions where Psammophiliella muralis is native: Altay, Irkutsk, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, West Siberia, West Himalaya, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, East European Russia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Krym, Netherlands, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, South European Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine AltayIrkutskKazakhstanKirgizstanKrasnoyarskNorth CaucasusTranscaucasusWest SiberiaWest HimalayaAustriaBaltic StatesBelarusBelgiumBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaEast European RussiaFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyKrymNetherlandsNorth European RussiaNorthwest European RussiaNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSouth European RussiaSpainSwitzerlandTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine
Native distribution of Psammophiliella muralis, 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
East European Russia RUE
France FRA
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
Netherlands NET
North European Russia RUN
Northwest European Russia RUW
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Irkutsk IRK
Kazakhstan KAZ
Kirgizstan KGZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
North Caucasus NCS
Transcaucasus TCS
West Siberia WSB
West Himalaya WHM 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.

Flowering 264 in flower of 268 examined

Peak flowering in Aug. Each bar is the share of Psammophiliella muralis 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. 264 of 268 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 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 14 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.

  • Dichoglottis muralis Jaub. & Spach
  • Gypsophila agrestis Pers.
  • Gypsophila arvensis Borkh. ex Steud.
  • Gypsophila muralis L.
  • Gypsophila muralis f. micropetala Holmboe
  • Gypsophila muralis subsp. stepposa Soó
  • Gypsophila muralis var. stenopetala Zapał.
  • Gypsophila muralis var. stepposa (Klokov) Schischk.
  • Gypsophila purpurea Gilib.
  • Gypsophila serotina Hayne
  • Gypsophila stepposa Klokov
  • Psammophila muralis (L.) Ikonn.
  • Psammophila stepposa (Klokov) Ikonn.
  • Psammophiliella stepposa (Klokov) Ikonn.

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.