Sideritis tauricaStephan ex Willd.

WFO wfo-0000310492 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Sideritis taurica, photographed by Татьяна Максимова
fig. a Татьяна Максимова, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-09-29 / obs. 160980034
Sideritis taurica, photographed by Пані Тимошенко
fig. b Пані Тимошенко, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 114649318
Sideritis taurica, photographed by Михаил Орлов
fig. c Михаил Орлов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 100496449
Sideritis taurica, photographed by Михаил Орлов
fig. d Михаил Орлов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 80304903
Sideritis taurica, photographed by Михаил Орлов
fig. e Михаил Орлов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 79147197
Sideritis taurica, photographed by Vitaliy Rudenko
fig. f Vitaliy Rudenko, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32224674
Sideritis taurica, photographed by Михаил Орлов
fig. g Михаил Орлов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 52801752
Sideritis taurica, photographed by Михаил Орлов
fig. h Михаил Орлов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 52801520

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Sideritis taurica is native: North Caucasus, Türkiye, Bulgaria, Krym North CaucasusTürkiyeBulgariaKrym
Native distribution of Sideritis taurica, 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
North Caucasus NCS ASIA-TEMPERATE
Türkiye TUR
Bulgaria BUL EUROPE
Krym KRY

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 10 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.

  • Navicularia syriaca subsp. distans (Willd.) Soják
  • Navicularia syriaca subsp. taurica (Stephan ex Willd.) Soják
  • Sideritis chlorostegia Juz.
  • Sideritis distans Willd.
  • Sideritis dura Benth.
  • Sideritis georgica K.Koch
  • Sideritis scythica Juz.
  • Sideritis syriaca Pall. ex M.Bieb.
  • Sideritis syriaca subsp. taurica (Stephan ex Willd.) Gladkova
  • Sideritis taurica var. dimorpha Fisch. & C.A.Mey.

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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