Scabiosa lucidaVill.

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WFO wfo-0000500124 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Scabiosa lucida, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. a Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-25 / obs. 166091552
Scabiosa lucida, photographed by kfa
fig. b kfa, CC0 1.0 / obs. 154152367
Scabiosa lucida, photographed by Dario Taraborelli
fig. c Dario Taraborelli, CC0 1.0 / obs. 147503961
Scabiosa lucida, photographed by Dario Taraborelli
fig. d Dario Taraborelli, CC0 1.0 / obs. 147511291
Scabiosa lucida, photographed by Dario Taraborelli
fig. e Dario Taraborelli, CC0 1.0 / obs. 147274881
Scabiosa lucida, photographed by Vanessa Nardini
fig. f Vanessa Nardini, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152695083
Scabiosa lucida, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. g Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 138338166
Scabiosa lucida, photographed by carnifex
fig. h carnifex, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 100951552

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Native range 13 botanical countries

Regions where Scabiosa lucida is native: Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Switzerland, Ukraine AlbaniaAustriaBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGermanyHungaryItalyNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSwitzerlandUkraine
Native distribution of Scabiosa lucida, 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
Austria AUT
Bulgaria BUL
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Germany GER
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
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 15 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.

  • Asterocephalus hladnikianus Schur
  • Asterocephalus lucidus (Vill.) Spreng.
  • Asterocephalus pseudobanaticus Schur
  • Asterocephalus strictus Spreng.
  • Columbaria glabrescens Fourr.
  • Columbaria norica J.Presl & C.Presl
  • Scabiosa calcarea Tocl
  • Scabiosa calcicola Blonski
  • Scabiosa glabrescens Jord.
  • Scabiosa guitardi Timb.-Lagr.
  • Scabiosa krasanii Hayek
  • Scabiosa norica Vest
  • Scabiosa opaca Klokov
  • Scabiosa stricta Waldst. & Kit.
  • Sclerostemma lucidum (Vill.) Schott

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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