Tolpis umbellataBertol.

WFO wfo-0000114536 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, 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.

Tolpis umbellata, photographed by Marc Riera
fig. a Marc Riera, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-23 / obs. 199981459
Tolpis umbellata, photographed by Josep Gesti
fig. b Josep Gesti, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 200044887
Tolpis umbellata, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. c Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 137445624
Tolpis umbellata, photographed by Ina Siebert
fig. d Ina Siebert, CC0 1.0 / obs. 60306234
Tolpis umbellata, photographed by Marc Riera
fig. e Marc Riera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199981550
Tolpis umbellata, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. f Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 137445708
Tolpis umbellata, photographed by Fabien Piednoir
fig. g Fabien Piednoir, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 3526722
Tolpis umbellata, photographed by Fabien Piednoir
fig. h Fabien Piednoir, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 3526723

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Native range 21 botanical countries

Regions where Tolpis umbellata is native: Algeria, Canary Is., Morocco, Tunisia, East Aegean Is., Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Türkiye, Baleares, Bulgaria, Corse, France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe AlgeriaMoroccoTunisiaEast Aegean Is.Lebanon-SyriaPalestineTürkiyeBulgariaCorseFranceGreeceItalyKritiNW. Balkan Pen.PortugalSiciliaSpainTürkiye-in-Europe Canary Is.BalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Tolpis umbellata, 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
Baleares BAL EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
Corse COR
France FRA
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Portugal POR
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Canary Is. CNY
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
East Aegean Is. EAI ASIA-TEMPERATE
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Palestine PAL
Türkiye TUR

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.

Flowering 42 in flower of 43 examined

Peak flowering in Apr. Each bar is the share of Tolpis umbellata observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 42 of 43 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 10 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

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.

  • Drepania umbellata DC.
  • Schmidtia quercifolia Rchb.
  • Tolpis barbata subsp. umbellata (Bertol.) Maire
  • Tolpis concolor Jord. & Fourr.
  • Tolpis macrodonta Jord. & Fourr.
  • Tolpis microcephala Pomel
  • Tolpis quercifolia Sch.Bip.
  • Tolpis quinqueradiata K.Koch
  • Tolpis umbellata var. minor Lange
  • Tolpis umbellata var. umbellata

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.