Seseli montanumL.

WFO wfo-0000434782 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Seseli montanum, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. a Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-12-11 / obs. 174961316
Seseli montanum, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. b Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165665091
Seseli montanum, photographed by Jean-Silouane Rebours
fig. c Jean-Silouane Rebours, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 156416879
Seseli montanum, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. d Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158577646
Seseli montanum, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. e Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160706026
Seseli montanum, photographed by Quentin Groom
fig. f Quentin Groom, CC0 1.0 / obs. 135282270
Seseli montanum, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. g Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 103473855
Seseli montanum, photographed by Julien Renoult
fig. h Julien Renoult, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 11509320

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Seseli montanum is native: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland AlgeriaMoroccoTunisiaFranceItalySpainSwitzerland
Native distribution of Seseli montanum, 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
France FRA EUROPE
Italy ITA
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN

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 30 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.

  • Athamanta coarctata Ag. ex Nyman
  • Athamanta corctata C.Agardh ex Nyman
  • Gaya pyrenaica Gaudin
  • Marathrum glaucum (L.) Link
  • Marathrum montanum (L.) Link
  • Meum nudicaule Moench
  • Oreotelia glauca (L.) Raf.
  • Oreotelia montana (L.) Raf.
  • Pachypleurum pyrenaicum Mutel
  • Pimpinella dioica Lapeyr.
  • Selinum multicaule (Jacq.) E.H.L.Krause
  • Seseli athamanticum Arv.-Touv.
  • Seseli glaucescens Jord. ex Nyman
  • Seseli glaucum L.
  • Seseli granatense Willk.
  • Seseli montanum f. nanum (Dufour) Costa
  • Seseli montanum subsp. glaucum (L.) Nyman
  • Seseli montanum var. brevifolium Rouy & E.G.Camus
  • Seseli montanum var. breviscapum Martrin-Donos
  • Seseli montanum var. glaucescens (Jord.) St.-Lag.
  • Seseli montanum var. longifolium Rouy & E.G.Camus
  • Seseli montanum var. multicaule DC.
  • Seseli montanum var. multicaule (Jacq.) Poir.
  • Seseli montanum var. nanum (Dufour) Soy.-Will.

and 6 more.

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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