Umbilicus rupestris(Salisb.) Dandy

WFO wfo-0000415401 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Umbilicus rupestris, photographed by Pete Bradshaw
fig. a Pete Bradshaw, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-09 / obs. 204826244
Umbilicus rupestris, photographed by desertnaturalist
fig. b desertnaturalist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205759384
Umbilicus rupestris, photographed by Harshjeet Singh Bal
fig. c Harshjeet Singh Bal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202248971
Umbilicus rupestris, photographed by Marc Riera
fig. d Marc Riera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190399808
Umbilicus rupestris, photographed by mchaquis
fig. e mchaquis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190682044
Umbilicus rupestris, photographed by John Hepburn
fig. f John Hepburn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188230978
Umbilicus rupestris, photographed by John Hepburn
fig. g John Hepburn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188231031
Umbilicus rupestris, photographed by Vicente Lopes
fig. h Vicente Lopes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188619676

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Native range 29 botanical countries

Regions where Umbilicus rupestris is native: Algeria, Azores, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, Tunisia, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Lebanon-Syria, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, Türkiye, India, Albania, Baleares, Bulgaria, Corse, France, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Kriti, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe AlgeriaLibyaMoroccoTunisiaCyprusEast Aegean Is.Lebanon-SyriaSaudi ArabiaSinaiTürkiyeIndiaAlbaniaBulgariaCorseFranceGreeceIrelandItalyKritiNW. Balkan Pen.PortugalSiciliaSpainTürkiye-in-Europe AzoresMadeiraBalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Umbilicus rupestris, 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
Baleares BAL
Bulgaria BUL
Corse COR
France FRA
Great Britain GRB
Greece GRC
Ireland IRE
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Portugal POR
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Azores AZO
Libya LBY
Madeira MDR
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Saudi Arabia SAU
Sinai SIN
Türkiye TUR
India IND ASIA-TROPICAL

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 597 in flower of 1,385 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Umbilicus rupestris 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. 597 of 1,385 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 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 20 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.

  • Cotyledon neglecta Cout.
  • Cotyledon ombilicus Lam.
  • Cotyledon rupestris Salisb.
  • Cotyledon tuberosa Halácsy
  • Cotyledon umbilicata Lam.
  • Cotyledon umbilicifolia Stokes
  • Cotyledon umbilicus-veneris L.
  • Cotyledon umbilicus-veneris var. tuberosa L.
  • Cotyliphyllum erectum Link
  • Cotyliphyllum umbilicus Link
  • Umbilicus aetneus Tornab.
  • Umbilicus deflexus Pomel
  • Umbilicus neglectus (Cout.) Rothm. & P.Silva
  • Umbilicus patulus Pomel
  • Umbilicus pendulinus DC.
  • Umbilicus pendulinus var. truncatus W.Dod
  • Umbilicus pendulinus var. velenovskyi Rohl
  • Umbilicus simplex K.Koch
  • Umbilicus umbilicatus (Lam.) Breistr.
  • Umbilicus vulgaris Batt. & Trab.

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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