Scorzonera parvifloraJacq.

WFO wfo-0000075029 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Scorzonera parviflora, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. a Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-07-31 / obs. 147585779
Scorzonera parviflora, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. b Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 147585811
Scorzonera parviflora, photographed by KAnatoliy
fig. c KAnatoliy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 147449867
Scorzonera parviflora, photographed by KAnatoliy
fig. d KAnatoliy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 147449881
Scorzonera parviflora, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. e Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 147585738
Scorzonera parviflora, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. f Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 55911622
Scorzonera parviflora, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. g Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 43936184
Scorzonera parviflora, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. h Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 55911630

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Native range 29 botanical countries

Regions where Scorzonera parviflora is native: Afghanistan, Altay, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Lebanon-Syria, Mongolia, North Caucasus, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Austria, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, East European Russia, France, Germany, Hungary, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania, South European Russia, Spain, Ukraine AfghanistanAltayIranKazakhstanKirgizstanLebanon-SyriaMongoliaNorth CaucasusTadzhikistanTranscaucasusTürkiyeTurkmenistanUzbekistanWest SiberiaXinjiangAustriaBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaEast European RussiaFranceGermanyHungaryKrymNW. Balkan Pen.RomaniaSouth European RussiaSpainUkraine
Native distribution of Scorzonera parviflora, 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
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
Altay ALT
Iran IRN
Kazakhstan KAZ
Kirgizstan KGZ
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Mongolia MON
North Caucasus NCS
Tadzhikistan TZK
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Turkmenistan TKM
Uzbekistan UZB
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX
Austria AUT EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
East European Russia RUE
France FRA
Germany GER
Hungary HUN
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Spain SPA
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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 224 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -19.1 °C -8.2 °C -0.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 23.1 °C 25.8 °C 28.3 °C
Annual rainfall 334 mm 527 mm 646 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 48 mm 89 mm 119 mm

It is found where winters are severely cold. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 224 research-grade observations of Scorzonera parviflora that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 6 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.

  • Podospermum parviflorum (Jacq.) Yıld.
  • Scorzonera caricifolia Pall.
  • Scorzonera cypria Kotschy
  • Scorzonera halophila Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
  • Scorzonera humilis subsp. parviflora (Jacq.) H.J.Coste
  • Scorzonera schanginiana Lipsch.

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.