Verbascum ovalifoliumDonn ex Sims

WFO wfo-0000419154 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Verbascum ovalifolium, photographed by Galyna Mykytynets
fig. a Galyna Mykytynets, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-07-25 / obs. 146312575
Verbascum ovalifolium, photographed by Вячеслав Юсупов
fig. b Вячеслав Юсупов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 98403410
Verbascum ovalifolium, photographed by Вячеслав Юсупов
fig. c Вячеслав Юсупов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 97803054
Verbascum ovalifolium, photographed by Galyna Mykytynets
fig. d Galyna Mykytynets, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115648846
Verbascum ovalifolium, photographed by Galyna Mykytynets
fig. e Galyna Mykytynets, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115077235
Verbascum ovalifolium, photographed by Galyna Mykytynets
fig. f Galyna Mykytynets, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172680262
Verbascum ovalifolium, photographed by Galyna Mykytynets
fig. g Galyna Mykytynets, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172677929
Verbascum ovalifolium, photographed by Татьяна Максимова
fig. h Татьяна Максимова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 159447821

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Verbascum ovalifolium is native: North Caucasus, Türkiye, Bulgaria, Krym, Romania, South European Russia, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine North CaucasusTürkiyeBulgariaKrymRomaniaSouth European RussiaTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine
Native distribution of Verbascum ovalifolium, 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
Bulgaria BUL EUROPE
Krym KRY
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
North Caucasus NCS ASIA-TEMPERATE
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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 146 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -6.0 °C -2.2 °C 0.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 23.9 °C 26.9 °C 28.6 °C
Annual rainfall 411 mm 514 mm 827 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 81 mm 109 mm 171 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 146 research-grade observations of Verbascum ovalifolium that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 6 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.

  • Verbascum compactum M.Bieb.
  • Verbascum crenatifolium Boiss.
  • Verbascum formosum Fisch. ex Schrad.
  • Verbascum nemorosum Noë ex Nyman
  • Verbascum pulchrum Velen.
  • Verbascum thracicum Velen.

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.