Torminalis glaberrima(Gand.) Sennikov & Kurtto

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WFO wfo-0001427470 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Torminalis glaberrima, photographed by Andrew Skotnicki
fig. a Andrew Skotnicki, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-29 / obs. 201954063
Torminalis glaberrima, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. b Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201497902
Torminalis glaberrima, photographed by ahabo
fig. c ahabo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201353459
Torminalis glaberrima, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. d Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201307006
Torminalis glaberrima, photographed by Patrick Hacker
fig. e Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201379646
Torminalis glaberrima, photographed by Manuel R Popp
fig. f Manuel R Popp, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199636642
Torminalis glaberrima, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. g Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199559306
Torminalis glaberrima, photographed by carnifex
fig. h carnifex, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193946778

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Native range 30 botanical countries

Regions where Torminalis glaberrima is native: Algeria, Morocco, Iran, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine AlgeriaMoroccoIranLebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusTranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBulgariaCorseCzechia-SlovakiaDenmarkFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyKrymNW. Balkan Pen.PolandPortugalRomaniaSiciliaSpainSwitzerlandUkraine Sardegna
Native distribution of Torminalis glaberrima, 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
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Corse COR
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Denmark DEN
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Portugal POR
Romania ROM
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR
Iran IRN ASIA-TEMPERATE
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Morocco MOR

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.

Flowering 90 in flower of 367 examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Torminalis glaberrima 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. 90 of 367 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 3 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 81 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.

  • Aria torminalis (L.) Beck
  • Aria torminalis f. mollis (Beck) Beck
  • Azarolus torminalis (L.) Borkh.
  • Crataegus torminalis L.
  • Hahnia torminalis (L.) Medik.
  • Lazarolus torminalis (L.) Borkh.
  • Malus torminalis (L.) Risso
  • Mespilus torminalis (L.) Weber ex F.H.Wigg.
  • Pyrenia torminalis (L.) Clairv.
  • Pyrus septiloba Stokes
  • Pyrus torminalis (L.) Ehrh.
  • Pyrus torminalis f. mollis Beck
  • Pyrus torminalis var. glaberrima (Gand.) Asch. & Graebn.
  • Pyrus torminalis var. mollis (Beck) Asch. & Graebn.
  • Pyrus torminalis var. perincisa (Borbás & Fekete) Asch. & Graebn.
  • Pyrus torminalis var. pinnatifida (Boiss.) Asch. & Graebn.
  • Sorbus glaberrima Gand.
  • Sorbus guadarramica Pau
  • Sorbus latifolia var. semitorminalis Borbás
  • Sorbus orientalis Schönb.-Tem.
  • Sorbus perincisa Borbás & Fekete
  • Sorbus semitorminalis (Borbás) Hedl.
  • Sorbus torminalis (L.) Crantz
  • Sorbus torminalis f. angustifolia Priszter & Kárpáti

and 57 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. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol SOTO9. public domain. 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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