Scorzonera humilisL.

WFO wfo-0000078770 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Scorzonera humilis, photographed by David Sandler
fig. a David Sandler, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-23 / obs. 200239559
Scorzonera humilis, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. b Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197885679
Scorzonera humilis, photographed by David Sandler
fig. c David Sandler, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196992643
Scorzonera humilis, photographed by Sigitas Juzėnas
fig. d Sigitas Juzėnas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 146321255
Scorzonera humilis, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. e Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 139318095
Scorzonera humilis, photographed by David Sandler
fig. f David Sandler, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136799715
Scorzonera humilis, photographed by Wolfgang Jauch
fig. g Wolfgang Jauch, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 135800089
Scorzonera humilis, photographed by David Sandler
fig. h David Sandler, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 133668084

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Native range 25 botanical countries

Regions where Scorzonera humilis is native: Türkiye, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Northwest European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine TürkiyeAustriaBaltic StatesBelarusBelgiumCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaDenmarkFinlandFranceGermanyHungaryItalyNetherlandsNorthwest European RussiaNorwayNW. Balkan Pen.PolandPortugalRomaniaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandUkraine
Native distribution of Scorzonera humilis, 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
Baltic States BLT
Belarus BLR
Belgium BGM
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Denmark DEN
Finland FIN
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Netherlands NET
Northwest European Russia RUW
Norway NOR
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Portugal POR
Romania ROM
Spain SPA
Sweden SWE
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR
Türkiye TUR ASIA-TEMPERATE

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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 103 in flower of 136 examined

Peak flowering in Apr. Each bar is the share of Scorzonera humilis 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. 103 of 136 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 9 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 29 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.

  • Scorzonera alpina Pollini
  • Scorzonera angustifolia var. provincialis Duby
  • Scorzonera bohemica F.W.Schmidt
  • Scorzonera candollei Vis.
  • Scorzonera candollei subsp. candollei
  • Scorzonera candollei subsp. tenuifolia (DC.) Nyman
  • Scorzonera clusii Asso
  • Scorzonera humilis subsp. humilis
  • Scorzonera humilis subsp. tenuifolia (DC.) Arcang.
  • Scorzonera humilis var. angustifolia Hornem.
  • Scorzonera humilis var. angustifolia Bisch.
  • Scorzonera humilis var. angustifolia Neilr.
  • Scorzonera humilis var. brevifolia Schur
  • Scorzonera humilis var. humilis
  • Scorzonera humilis var. latifolia Bisch.
  • Scorzonera humilis var. latifolia Neilr.
  • Scorzonera humilis var. plantaginea Schur
  • Scorzonera humilis var. ramosa Neilr.
  • Scorzonera humilis var. stenophylla Gaudin
  • Scorzonera lanata Schrank
  • Scorzonera lanuginosa Baumg.
  • Scorzonera macrorhiza Schleich.
  • Scorzonera nervosa Lam.
  • Scorzonera nervosa Gilib.

and 5 more.

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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.