Valeriana montanaL.

dwarf valerianmountain valerian

WFO wfo-0000426966 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Valeriana montana, photographed by Elias
fig. a Elias, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205184678
Valeriana montana, photographed by Tim Johnson
fig. b Tim Johnson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205161454
Valeriana montana, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. c Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205720561
Valeriana montana, photographed by Olivier Argagnon
fig. d Olivier Argagnon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204731738
Valeriana montana, photographed by Tobias Schönberg
fig. e Tobias Schönberg, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203318295
Valeriana montana, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. f Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195692655
Valeriana montana, photographed by Wolfgang Jauch
fig. g Wolfgang Jauch, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152450338
Valeriana montana, photographed by TadejM
fig. h TadejM, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145635857

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Valeriana montana is native: Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Spain, Switzerland AlbaniaAustriaBulgariaCorseCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGermanyGreeceItalyNW. Balkan Pen.PortugalRomaniaSpainSwitzerland Sardegna
Native distribution of Valeriana montana, 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
Bulgaria BUL
Corse COR
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Portugal POR
Romania ROM
Sardegna SAR
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI

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 7 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.

  • Valeriana alpigena Schur
  • Valeriana ambigua Beck
  • Valeriana cuspidata Bertol. ex DC.
  • Valeriana montana var. tarraconensis Pau ex O.Bolòs & Vigo
  • Valeriana rotundifolia var. tripartita Gamisans
  • Valeriana scrophulariifolia Pourr.
  • Valeriana sternbergii Beck

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. 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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