Pseudopodospermum molle(M.Bieb.) Kuth.

WFO wfo-0000116511 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Pseudopodospermum molle, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. a Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-08 / obs. 196514570
Pseudopodospermum molle, photographed by Дима Орлов
fig. b Дима Орлов, CC0 1.0 / obs. 190667508
Pseudopodospermum molle, photographed by Елена Патерикина
fig. c Елена Патерикина, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107517193
Pseudopodospermum molle, photographed by Igor Balashov
fig. d Igor Balashov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 76655450
Pseudopodospermum molle, photographed by Иван Пристрем
fig. e Иван Пристрем, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179948977
Pseudopodospermum molle, photographed by Todd Boland
fig. f Todd Boland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 11506164
Pseudopodospermum molle, photographed by KAnatoliy
fig. g KAnatoliy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196018905
Pseudopodospermum molle, photographed by Максим Шумских
fig. h Максим Шумских, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193536367

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Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Pseudopodospermum molle is native: Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Palestine, Sinai, Türkiye, Pakistan, Albania, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Greece, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania, South European Russia, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine IranIraqLebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusPalestineSinaiTürkiyePakistanAlbaniaBulgariaCentral European RussiaGreeceKrymNW. Balkan Pen.RomaniaSouth European RussiaTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine
Native distribution of Pseudopodospermum molle, 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
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Greece GRC
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
Iran IRN ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iraq IRQ
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Palestine PAL
Sinai SIN
Türkiye TUR
Pakistan PAK 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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 497 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -9.4 °C -0.8 °C 1.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 24.0 °C 26.0 °C 29.2 °C
Annual rainfall 405 mm 570 mm 933 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 18 mm 112 mm 158 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 497 research-grade observations of Pseudopodospermum molle that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

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.

  • Candollea mollis (M.Bieb.) Yıld.
  • Podospermum molle (M.Bieb.) Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
  • Podospermum villosum DC.
  • Scorzonera ambigua DC.
  • Scorzonera graminifolia Griseb.
  • Scorzonera heterophylla Pomel
  • Scorzonera mollis M.Bieb.
  • Scorzonera mollis var. caulescens Kuntze
  • Scorzonera mollis var. platyphylla Boiss.
  • Scorzonera mollis var. subacaulis Tzvelev
  • Scorzonera mollis var. virgata Lipsch. & Krasch.
  • Scorzonera rumelica Velen.
  • Scorzonera tomentosa Pall.
  • Scorzonera velutina DC.

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.

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.