Sempervivum heuffeliiSchott

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WFO wfo-0000441411 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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.

Sempervivum heuffelii, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. a Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / 2013-08-11 / obs. 59039575
Sempervivum heuffelii, photographed by Lazar Popović
fig. b Lazar Popović, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 151211828
Sempervivum heuffelii, photographed by Lazar Popović
fig. c Lazar Popović, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 151211882
Sempervivum heuffelii, photographed by Lazar Popović
fig. d Lazar Popović, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 151211942

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Sempervivum heuffelii is native: Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania AlbaniaBulgariaGreeceNW. Balkan Pen.Romania
Native distribution of Sempervivum heuffelii, 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
Bulgaria BUL
Greece GRC
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Romania ROM

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 18 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.

  • Diopogon heuffelii (Schott) Jord. & Fourr.
  • Diopogon heuffelii var. bulgaricus (Ceschm.) H.Jacobsen
  • Diopogon stramineus Jord. & Fourr.
  • Diopogon velenovskyi (Ceschm.) H.Jacobsen
  • Jovibarba heuffelii (Schott) Á.Löve & D.Löve
  • Jovibarba heuffelii subsp. patens (Griseb. & Schenk) Holub
  • Jovibarba heuffelii var. patens (Griseb. & Schenk) P.J.Mitch.
  • Jovibarba velenovskyi (Cesmedzijev) Holub
  • Sempervivum brassaii Schur
  • Sempervivum heuffelii var. patens (Griseb. & Schenk) Huber
  • Sempervivum hirtum subsp. patens (Griseb. & Schenk) Stoj. & Stef.
  • Sempervivum kopaonikense Pančić
  • Sempervivum patens Griseb. & Schenk
  • Sempervivum reginae-amaliae Heldr. & Sartori ex Baker
  • Sempervivum stramineum (Jord. & Fourr.) Nyman
  • Sempervivum stramineum (Jord. & Fourr.) Baker
  • Sempervivum transylvanicum Baker
  • Sempervivum velenovskyi Ceschm.

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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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