Sideritis incanaL.

WFO wfo-0000310173 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 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.

Sideritis incana, photographed by Denys Vynokurov
fig. a Denys Vynokurov, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-07-09 / obs. 142988542
Sideritis incana, photographed by Denys Vynokurov
fig. b Denys Vynokurov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 142988570
Sideritis incana, photographed by Denys Vynokurov
fig. c Denys Vynokurov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 142988598
Sideritis incana, photographed by Denys Vynokurov
fig. d Denys Vynokurov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 142988644
Sideritis incana, photographed by Denys Vynokurov
fig. e Denys Vynokurov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 142988675
Sideritis incana, photographed by Denys Vynokurov
fig. f Denys Vynokurov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 142988699

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Sideritis incana is native: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Spain AlgeriaMoroccoTunisiaSpain
Native distribution of Sideritis incana, 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
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
Spain SPA EUROPE

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 55 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.

  • Sideritis altiatlantica (Font Quer) Peris, Stübing & Figuerola
  • Sideritis atlantica Pomel
  • Sideritis atlantica var. nervosa Pomel
  • Sideritis edetana (Pau ex Font Quer) Peris, Figuerola & Stübing
  • Sideritis gineslopezii Obón & D.Rivera
  • Sideritis gouyouniana Boiss. & Reut.
  • Sideritis hyssopifolia subsp. atlantica (Pomel) Batt.
  • Sideritis incana subsp. edetana (Pau ex Font Quer) Mateo & M.B.Crespo
  • Sideritis incana subsp. occidentalis (Font Quer) Cabezudo, Nieto Caldera & T.Navarro
  • Sideritis incana subsp. sericea (Pers.) Nyman
  • Sideritis incana subsp. virgata (Desf.) Malag.
  • Sideritis incana subvar. arairae Maire
  • Sideritis incana subvar. aurasiaca (Batt.) Font Quer
  • Sideritis incana subvar. depauperata Font Quer
  • Sideritis incana subvar. recessa Font Quer
  • Sideritis incana subvar. roseiflora Font Quer
  • Sideritis incana subvar. spinulosa Font Quer
  • Sideritis incana var. albiflora Batt.
  • Sideritis incana var. altiatlantica Font Quer
  • Sideritis incana var. arairae (Maire) Socorro, L.Cano & Espinar
  • Sideritis incana var. atlantica (Pomel) Font Quer
  • Sideritis incana var. aurasiaca Batt.
  • Sideritis incana var. edetana Pau ex Font Quer
  • Sideritis incana var. flavovirens Maire

and 31 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.

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.