Scolymus grandiflorusDesf.

WFO wfo-0000094667 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Scolymus grandiflorus, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. a Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205525705
Scolymus grandiflorus, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. b Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198093429
Scolymus grandiflorus, photographed by Riccardo Rocca
fig. c Riccardo Rocca, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196542975
Scolymus grandiflorus, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. d Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126886933
Scolymus grandiflorus, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. e Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 108308908
Scolymus grandiflorus, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. f Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205454672
Scolymus grandiflorus, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. g Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205535821
Scolymus grandiflorus, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. h Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205252503

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Native range 14 botanical countries

Regions where Scolymus grandiflorus is native: Algeria, Canary Is., Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, East Aegean Is., Lebanon-Syria, Baleares, Corse, France, Italy, Sardegna, Sicilia, Türkiye-in-Europe AlgeriaLibyaMoroccoTunisiaEast Aegean Is.Lebanon-SyriaCorseFranceItalySiciliaTürkiye-in-Europe Canary Is.BalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Scolymus grandiflorus, 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
Baleares BAL EUROPE
Corse COR
France FRA
Italy ITA
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Canary Is. CNY
Libya LBY
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
East Aegean Is. EAI ASIA-TEMPERATE
Lebanon-Syria LBS

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 2 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.

  • Myscolus megacephalus Cass.
  • Scolymus hispanicus subsp. grandiflorus (Desf.) P.Fourn.

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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