Scorzoneroides montana(Lam.) Holub

WFO wfo-0000053661 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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.

Scorzoneroides montana, photographed by Wolfgang Jauch
fig. a Wolfgang Jauch, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-08-21 / obs. 152721522
Scorzoneroides montana, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. b Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 6774904
Scorzoneroides montana, photographed by Patrick Schwager
fig. c Patrick Schwager, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61481848
Scorzoneroides montana, photographed by Wolfgang Jauch
fig. d Wolfgang Jauch, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152721456
Scorzoneroides montana, photographed by Wolfgang Jauch
fig. e Wolfgang Jauch, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152721466

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Scorzoneroides montana is native: Albania, Austria, France, Germany, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Switzerland AlbaniaAustriaFranceGermanyItalyNW. Balkan Pen.Switzerland
Native distribution of Scorzoneroides montana, 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
France FRA
Germany GER
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
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.

Also published as 8 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.

  • Leontodon croceus var. breviscapus DC.
  • Leontodon illyricus K.Malý
  • Leontodon montanus Lam.
  • Leontodon montanus subsp. breviscapus (DC.) Cavara & Grande
  • Leontodon montanus subsp. melanotrichus (Vierh.) H.Pittoni
  • Leontodon montanus subsp. montanus
  • Leontodon montanus var. melanotrichus Vierh.
  • Leontodon taraxaci var. illyricus (K.Malý) Rohlena

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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