Scabiosa triandraL.

WFO wfo-0000500658 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Scabiosa triandra, photographed by David Sandler
fig. a David Sandler, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-09-05 / obs. 157939663
Scabiosa triandra, photographed by Francesco Cecere
fig. b Francesco Cecere, CC0 1.0 / obs. 107923303
Scabiosa triandra, photographed by Francesco Cecere
fig. c Francesco Cecere, CC0 1.0 / obs. 81239615
Scabiosa triandra, photographed by Emanuele Santarelli
fig. d Emanuele Santarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 77488197
Scabiosa triandra, photographed by Irene Saltini
fig. e Irene Saltini, CC0 1.0 / obs. 48379054
Scabiosa triandra, photographed by Ljaž
fig. f Ljaž, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166424500
Scabiosa triandra, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. g Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 157600677
Scabiosa triandra, photographed by Ljaž
fig. h Ljaž, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 148323164

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Native range 13 botanical countries

Regions where Scabiosa triandra is native: Albania, Austria, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Hungary, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Switzerland AlbaniaAustriaCorseCzechia-SlovakiaFranceHungaryItalyNW. Balkan Pen.PortugalSiciliaSpainSwitzerland Sardegna
Native distribution of Scabiosa triandra, 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
Corse COR
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Portugal POR
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI

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 77 in flower of 78 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Scabiosa triandra 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. 77 of 78 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 5 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. 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 13 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 agrestis Spreng.
  • Asterocephalus gramuntius Spreng.
  • Asterocephalus paucisetus Loudon
  • Columbaria gramuntea (L.) Fourr.
  • Columbaria gramuntia (L.) Timb.-Lagr.
  • Columbaria tenuisecta Fourr.
  • Pentena uniseta (Savi) Raf.
  • Scabiosa affinis Gren. & Godr.
  • Scabiosa ceratophylla Ten.
  • Scabiosa gramuntia L.
  • Scabiosa leiocephala Hoppe ex Mert. & W.D.J.Koch
  • Scabiosa loscosii Sennen
  • Scabiosa mollis 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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