Saussurea discolor(Willd.) DC.

WFO wfo-0000131878 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, 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.

Saussurea discolor, photographed by Patrick Schwager
fig. a Patrick Schwager, CC BY 4.0 / 2017-08-23 / obs. 78015521
Saussurea discolor, photographed by Martin Scheuch
fig. b Martin Scheuch, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150297526
Saussurea discolor, photographed by Martin Scheuch
fig. c Martin Scheuch, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150297568
Saussurea discolor, photographed by Martin Scheuch
fig. d Martin Scheuch, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150297608
Saussurea discolor, photographed by Martin Scheuch
fig. e Martin Scheuch, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150297636

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Native range 10 botanical countries

Regions where Saussurea discolor is native: Austria, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Germany, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania, Switzerland, Ukraine AustriaBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGermanyItalyNW. Balkan Pen.RomaniaSwitzerlandUkraine
Native distribution of Saussurea discolor, 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
France FRA
Germany GER
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Romania ROM
Switzerland SWI
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 1 synonym

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.

  • Serratula discolor Willd.

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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