Scutellaria alpina

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Scutellaria alpina, photographed by pavlaki1968 — fig. b pavlaki1968, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 147544336

Scutellaria alpina, photographed by Santiago Martín-Bravo — fig. c Santiago Martín-Bravo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 148958142

Scutellaria alpina, photographed by Thomas Koffel — fig. d Thomas Koffel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 148690269

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Native range 10 botanical countries

Native distribution of Scutellaria alpina, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Albania	ALB	EUROPE
Bulgaria	BUL
France	FRA
Germany	GER
Greece	GRC
Italy	ITA
NW. Balkan Pen.	YUG
Romania	ROM
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 236 in flower of 236 examined

100%

Proportion of examined Scutellaria alpina in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	0	too few examined
Feb	0	0	too few examined
Mar	0	0	too few examined
Apr	0	0	too few examined
May	0	0	too few examined
Jun	62	62	100%	94% to 100%
Jul	113	113	100%	97% to 100%
Aug	43	43	100%	92% to 100%
Sep	16	16	100%	81% to 100%
Oct	2	2	too few examined
Nov	0	0	too few examined
Dec	0	0	too few examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Scutellaria alpina 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. 236 of 236 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 8 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 12 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.

Cassida alpina (L.) Moench
Scutellaria albida Benth.
Scutellaria alpina subsp. jabalambrensis Rivas Mart., Izco & M.J.Costa
Scutellaria alpina subsp. olympica Stoj. & Jordanov
Scutellaria alpina var. lupulina (L.) Nyman
Scutellaria alpina var. prostrata Trautv.
Scutellaria alpina var. pumila Lange
Scutellaria compressa A.Ham.
Scutellaria javalambrensis Pau
Scutellaria lupulina L.
Scutellaria variegata A.Spreng.
Scutellaria viscida A.Spreng.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
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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