Scutellaria orientalis

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Scutellaria orientalis, photographed by Dag Endresen — fig. b Dag Endresen, CC0 1.0 / obs. 195545161

Scutellaria orientalis, photographed by Todd Boland — fig. d Todd Boland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 108432551

Scutellaria orientalis, photographed by Jean-Paul Boerekamps — fig. e Jean-Paul Boerekamps, CC0 1.0 / obs. 98247720

Scutellaria orientalis, photographed by Grzegorz Grzejszczak — fig. g Grzegorz Grzejszczak, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 64691344

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Native distribution of Scutellaria orientalis, 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
Central European Russia	RUC
Greece	GRC
Krym	KRY
NW. Balkan Pen.	YUG
South European Russia	RUS
Spain	SPA
East Aegean Is.	EAI	ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iran	IRN
Lebanon-Syria	LBS
North Caucasus	NCS
Transcaucasus	TCS
Türkiye	TUR
Morocco	MOR	AFRICA

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 41 in flower of 45 examined

75%

94%

100%

80%

Proportion of examined Scutellaria orientalis in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	0	too few examined
Feb	1	1	too few examined
Mar	0	0	too few examined
Apr	6	8	75%	41% to 93%
May	15	16	94%	72% to 99%
Jun	13	13	100%	77% to 100%
Jul	4	5	80%	38% to 96%
Aug	2	2	too few examined
Sep	0	0	too few examined
Oct	0	0	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 orientalis 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. 41 of 45 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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 412 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	-13.2 °C	-3.6 °C	0.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	18.7 °C	25.8 °C	29.5 °C
Annual rainfall	440 mm	730 mm	1,506 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	50 mm	127 mm	211 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 412 research-grade observations of Scutellaria orientalis 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. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 26 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.

Scutellaria araratica Grossh.
Scutellaria bicolor Hochst.
Scutellaria cretacea Boiss. & Hausskn.
Scutellaria granatensis Pau
Scutellaria haussknechtii Boiss.
Scutellaria hercegovinica Formánek
Scutellaria heterochroa Juz.
Scutellaria hirtella Juz.
Scutellaria hypopolia Juz.
Scutellaria karatschaica Kharadze
Scutellaria macrostegia Hausskn. ex Bornm.
Scutellaria microstegia Bornm.
Scutellaria orientalis var. alpina Boiss.
Scutellaria orientalis var. chamaedryfolia Rchb.
Scutellaria orientalis var. hispanica Boiss.
Scutellaria orientalis var. microphylla K.Koch
Scutellaria orientalis var. pinnatifida Rchb.
Scutellaria orientalis var. porphrantha Litard. & Maire
Scutellaria orientalis var. taurica (Juz.) N.P.Popov
Scutellaria pectinata Montbret & Aucher ex Benth.
Scutellaria santolinoides Hausskn. ex Bornm.
Scutellaria sintenisii Bornm.
Scutellaria stevenii Juz.
Scutellaria subalbida Klokov

and 2 more.

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.

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.