Sibthorpia europaeaL.

WFO wfo-0000495164 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Sibthorpia europaea, photographed by Carminda Santos
fig. a Carminda Santos, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-04-11 / obs. 120404420
Sibthorpia europaea, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. b Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 97882964
Sibthorpia europaea, photographed by José Luis Camaño
fig. c José Luis Camaño, CC0 1.0 / obs. 184706801
Sibthorpia europaea, photographed by Carminda Santos
fig. d Carminda Santos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182007756
Sibthorpia europaea, photographed by Dan Wrench
fig. e Dan Wrench, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150281831
Sibthorpia europaea, photographed by Andre Hosper
fig. f Andre Hosper, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18211062
Sibthorpia europaea, photographed by Andre Hosper
fig. g Andre Hosper, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18211000
Sibthorpia europaea, photographed by Andre Hosper
fig. h Andre Hosper, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 10382299

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Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Sibthorpia europaea is native: Azores, Cameroon, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Gulf of Guinea Is., Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, France, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Kriti, Portugal, Spain CameroonDR CongoEthiopiaGulf of Guinea Is.KenyaRwandaTanzaniaUgandaZambiaZimbabweFranceGreeceIrelandKritiPortugalSpain Azores
Native distribution of Sibthorpia europaea, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Azores AZO AFRICA
Cameroon CMN
DR Congo ZAI
Ethiopia ETH
Gulf of Guinea Is. GGI
Kenya KEN
Rwanda RWA
Tanzania TAN
Uganda UGA
Zambia ZAM
Zimbabwe ZIM
France FRA EUROPE
Great Britain GRB
Greece GRC
Ireland IRE
Kriti KRI
Portugal POR
Spain SPA

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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 9 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.

  • Antirrhinum pilosum Jacq.
  • Cymbalaria pilosa (Jacq.) Grande
  • Elatine pilosa Moench ex Steud.
  • Linaria pilosa (Jacq.) Chaz.
  • Sibthorpia australis Hutch.
  • Sibthorpia europaea var. africana Hook.
  • Sibthorpia europaea var. glabra Skan
  • Sibthorpia pelia Beauverd & Topali
  • Sibthorpia prostrata Salisb.

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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