Sideritis hyssopifoliaL.

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WFO wfo-0000310125 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Sideritis hyssopifolia, photographed by Rafael Medina
fig. a Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-08-05 / obs. 167713084
Sideritis hyssopifolia, photographed by Rafael Medina
fig. b Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 149645486
Sideritis hyssopifolia, photographed by Ben Costamagna
fig. c Ben Costamagna, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150452035
Sideritis hyssopifolia, photographed by Denis Bastianelli
fig. d Denis Bastianelli, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 146844851
Sideritis hyssopifolia, photographed by Denis Bastianelli
fig. e Denis Bastianelli, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 113219976
Sideritis hyssopifolia, photographed by aroche
fig. f aroche, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 12888020
Sideritis hyssopifolia, photographed by aroche
fig. g aroche, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 12888018
Sideritis hyssopifolia, photographed by aroche
fig. h aroche, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 12888017

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Sideritis hyssopifolia is native: France, Italy, Sicilia, Spain, Switzerland FranceItalySiciliaSpainSwitzerland
Native distribution of Sideritis hyssopifolia, 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
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI

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 106 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.

  • Fracastora alpestris Bubani
  • Fracastora scordioides (L.) Bubani
  • Sideritis alpina Pourr.
  • Sideritis alpina Vill.
  • Sideritis bastanitsensis Sennen
  • Sideritis brachycalyx Pau
  • Sideritis brachystachys Gand.
  • Sideritis brevispica Sennen & Elías
  • Sideritis cantabrica Sennen & Elías
  • Sideritis castellana (Sennen & Pau) Sennen & Elías
  • Sideritis caureliana (Obón & D.Rivera) Coulomb
  • Sideritis chamaedryoides Dufour ex Willk. & Lange
  • Sideritis crenata Lapeyr.
  • Sideritis eynensis Sennen
  • Sideritis fetida Poir.
  • Sideritis foetida Desf.
  • Sideritis gouanii Timb.-Lagr.
  • Sideritis grandis Gand.
  • Sideritis guillonii Timb.-Lagr.
  • Sideritis guillonii subsp. brevispica (Sennen & Elías) D.Rivera & Obón
  • Sideritis guillonii subsp. peyrei (Timb.-Lagr.) D.Rivera & Obón
  • Sideritis hyssopifolia f. alpina (Vill.) Willk.
  • Sideritis hyssopifolia f. angustifolia (Benth.) Willk.
  • Sideritis hyssopifolia prol. pastoris Sennen

and 82 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. 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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