Reseda phyteumaL.

rampion mignonette

WFO wfo-0000462737 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Reseda phyteuma, photographed by Marc Riera
fig. a Marc Riera, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-20 / obs. 199166726

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Native range 23 botanical countries

Regions where Reseda phyteuma is native: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, Tunisia, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Austria, Baleares, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Switzerland AlgeriaEgyptLibyaMoroccoTunisiaTranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaAustriaCorseCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGreeceHungaryItalyNW. Balkan Pen.PolandPortugalRomaniaSpainSwitzerland MadeiraBaleares
Native distribution of Reseda phyteuma, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Baleares BAL
Corse COR
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Portugal POR
Romania ROM
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Egypt EGY
Libya LBY
Madeira MDR
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
Transcaucasus TCS ASIA-TEMPERATE
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 318 in flower of 339 examined

Proportion of examined Reseda phyteuma in flower, by month
Month In flower Examined Share 95% interval
Jan 12 13 92% 67% to 99%
Feb 14 15 93% 70% to 99%
Mar 70 71 99% 92% to 100%
Apr 98 100 98% 93% to 99%
May 66 73 90% 82% to 95%
Jun 13 19 68% 46% to 85%
Jul 11 12 92% 65% to 99%
Aug 3 5 60% 23% to 88%
Sep 5 5 100% 57% to 100%
Oct 12 12 100% 76% to 100%
Nov 9 9 100% 70% to 100%
Dec 5 5 100% 57% to 100%

Peak flowering in Sep. Each bar is the share of Reseda phyteuma 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. 318 of 339 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 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 32 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.

  • Pectanisia phyteuma (L.) Raf.
  • Reseda aragonensis Loscos & J.Pardo
  • Reseda bastitana Coincy
  • Reseda calicinalis Lam.
  • Reseda collina Müll.Arg.
  • Reseda collina J.Gay
  • Reseda confusa Pomel
  • Reseda laciniata Dulac
  • Reseda longicalycina St.-Lag.
  • Reseda lutea f. gracilis C.Vicioso
  • Reseda phyteuma f. aragonensis (Loscos & J.Pardo) Sennen
  • Reseda phyteuma f. glabra Pau
  • Reseda phyteuma prol. aragonensis (Loscos & J.Pardo) Rouy & Foucaud
  • Reseda phyteuma prol. ligustica (Caruel) Rouy & Foucaud
  • Reseda phyteuma subsp. aragonensis (Loscos & J.Pardo) Bonnier
  • Reseda phyteuma subsp. aragonensis (Loscos & J.Pardo) Rivas Mart.
  • Reseda phyteuma subsp. barcinonensis Sennen
  • Reseda phyteuma subsp. eu-phyteuma Maire
  • Reseda phyteuma subsp. rupestris (Lange) Aránega & Pajarón
  • Reseda phyteuma var. aragonensis (Loscos & J.Pardo) Gaut.
  • Reseda phyteuma var. fragans Texidor
  • Reseda phyteuma var. fragrans Texidor
  • Reseda phyteuma var. integrifolia Texidor
  • Reseda phyteuma var. ligustica Caruel

and 8 more.

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.

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