Scabiosa comosa

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Scabiosa comosa, photographed by Aleksei Baushev — fig. b Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158440277

Scabiosa comosa, photographed by Natalya Ivanova — fig. d Natalya Ivanova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 25047677

Scabiosa comosa, photographed by Andreas Taeger — fig. e Andreas Taeger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 164614236

Scabiosa comosa, photographed by Ochirnima Nimaev — fig. f Ochirnima Nimaev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111863914

Scabiosa comosa, photographed by Yves Bas — fig. g Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 58515197

Scabiosa comosa, photographed by Dag Endresen — fig. h Dag Endresen, CC0 1.0 / obs. 25056528

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Native distribution of Scabiosa comosa, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
China North-Central	CHN	ASIA-TEMPERATE
Inner Mongolia	CHI
Manchuria	CHM

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 34 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.

Scabiosa austromongolica Hurus.
Scabiosa comosa f. albiflora S.H.Li & S.Z.Liu
Scabiosa comosa var. comosa
Scabiosa comosa var. lachnophylla (Kitag.) Kitag.
Scabiosa fischeri DC.
Scabiosa fischeri f. breviseta Hand.-Mazz.
Scabiosa hairalensis Nakai
Scabiosa henanensis Y.K.Yang & J.K.Wu
Scabiosa hopeiensis Nakai
Scabiosa japonica subsp. tschiliensis (Grüning) H.Hara
Scabiosa japonica var. acutiloba H.Hara
Scabiosa japonica var. tschiliensis (Grüning) Hurus.
Scabiosa liaoningensis Y.K.Yang & J.K.Wu
Scabiosa mansenensis Nakai
Scabiosa superba Grüning
Scabiosa superba f. elatior Grüning
Scabiosa superba f. nana Grüning
Scabiosa togashiana Hurus.
Scabiosa tschiliensis Grüning
Scabiosa tschiliensis f. alpina (Nakai) W.Lee
Scabiosa tschiliensis var. breviseta Hurus.
Scabiosa tschiliensis var. longiseta Hurus.
Scabiosa tschiliensis var. superba (Grüning) S.Y.He
Scabiosa tschiliensis var. tschiliensis

and 10 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
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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