Sesleria argentea(Savi) Savi

WFO wfo-0000898756 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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.

Sesleria argentea, photographed by Denys Vynokurov
fig. a Denys Vynokurov, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-07 / obs. 127267495
Sesleria argentea, photographed by Denys Vynokurov
fig. b Denys Vynokurov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 127267532
Sesleria argentea, photographed by Denys Vynokurov
fig. c Denys Vynokurov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 127267576
Sesleria argentea, photographed by Denys Vynokurov
fig. d Denys Vynokurov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 127267514
Sesleria argentea, photographed by Denys Vynokurov
fig. e Denys Vynokurov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 127267551

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Sesleria argentea is native: Morocco, France, Italy, Spain MoroccoFranceItalySpain
Native distribution of Sesleria argentea, 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
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.

Also published as 13 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.

  • Cynosurus coeruleus Turio
  • Cynosurus cylindricus Balb.
  • Festuca argentea Savi
  • Koeleria coerulea Ten.
  • Sesleria argentea subsp. cylindrica (Balb.) P.Fourn.
  • Sesleria argentea subsp. gomarica (Font Quer) Romo
  • Sesleria argentea var. gomarica Font Quer
  • Sesleria argentea var. hispanica Sennen & Pau
  • Sesleria argentea var. hispanica Senn & Pau
  • Sesleria autumnalis subsp. argentea (Savi) Tzvelev
  • Sesleria cylindrica DC.
  • Sesleria cylindrica subsp. hispanica (Sennen & Pau) M.Laínz
  • Sesleria pallescens Hartm. ex Kunth

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.

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.