Rhinanthus riphaeusKrock.

WFO wfo-0000464163 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Rhinanthus riphaeus, photographed by rainerburkard
fig. a rainerburkard, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-07-02 / obs. 82342981
Rhinanthus riphaeus, photographed by rainerburkard
fig. b rainerburkard, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 82343043
Rhinanthus riphaeus, photographed by rainerburkard
fig. c rainerburkard, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 82342691

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Rhinanthus riphaeus is native: Austria, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, Germany, Poland, Romania, Ukraine AustriaBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaGermanyPolandRomaniaUkraine
Native distribution of Rhinanthus riphaeus, 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
Bulgaria BUL
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Germany GER
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Ukraine UKR

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.

Also published as 16 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.

  • Alectorolophus alpinus Walp.
  • Alectorolophus alpinus var. erectus Sterneck
  • Alectorolophus elatus Sterneck
  • Alectorolophus pulcher (Günther & Schummel ex Opiz) Wimm.
  • Alectorolophus pulcher var. elatus Sterneck
  • Rhinanthus alpinus Baumg.
  • Rhinanthus alpinus subsp. carpaticus Soó
  • Rhinanthus alpinus subvar. elatus (v.Sterneck) Hartl
  • Rhinanthus alpinus subvar. erectus (v.Sterneck) Hartl
  • Rhinanthus alpinus var. carpaticus (v.Soó) Hartl
  • Rhinanthus elatus (Sterneck) O.Schwarz
  • Rhinanthus minor var. minor
  • Rhinanthus pulcher Günther & Schummel ex Opiz
  • Rhinanthus pulcher Spreng.
  • Rhinanthus pulcher subsp. alpinus (Walp.) Rauschert
  • Rhinanthus pulcher subsp. carpaticus (Soó) Rauschert

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.