Verbascum simplexHoffmanns. & Link

WFO wfo-0000418920 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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.

Verbascum simplex, photographed by Carminda Santos
fig. a Carminda Santos, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-11-03 / obs. 167384385
Verbascum simplex, photographed by Carminda Santos
fig. b Carminda Santos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150536683
Verbascum simplex, photographed by Carminda Santos
fig. c Carminda Santos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167384387
Verbascum simplex, photographed by Carminda Santos
fig. d Carminda Santos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150536688
Verbascum simplex, photographed by Carminda Santos
fig. e Carminda Santos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167384390
Verbascum simplex, photographed by Carminda Santos
fig. f Carminda Santos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167384382
Verbascum simplex, photographed by Carminda Santos
fig. g Carminda Santos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150536691
Verbascum simplex, photographed by Carminda Santos
fig. h Carminda Santos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150536695

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Verbascum simplex is native: Algeria, Morocco, Portugal, Spain AlgeriaMoroccoPortugalSpain
Native distribution of Verbascum simplex, 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
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Morocco MOR
Portugal POR EUROPE
Spain SPA

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 19 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 dubium Roem. & Schult.
  • Verbascum giganteum subsp. dyris (Litard. & Maire ex Murb.) F.M.Vázquez, Pérez-Chisc. & Sánchez Gullón
  • Verbascum henriquesii Lange ex Henriq.
  • Verbascum henriquesii var. compositum (Mariz) Cout.
  • Verbascum henriquesii var. ramosum (Mariz) Cout.
  • Verbascum henriquesii var. simplex (Hoffmanns. & Link) Cout.
  • Verbascum linkianum Mariz
  • Verbascum linkianum var. compositum Mariz
  • Verbascum linkianum var. ramosum Mariz
  • Verbascum linkianum var. simplex (Hoffmanns. & Link) Mariz
  • Verbascum macranthum Hoffmanns. & Link
  • Verbascum phlomoides prol. macranthum (Hoffmanns. & Link) Samp.
  • Verbascum simplex var. compositum (Mariz) Benedí & Molero
  • Verbascum simplex var. dyris Litard. & Maire ex Murb.
  • Verbascum simplex var. eusimplex Murb.
  • Verbascum simplex var. ramosum (Mariz) Cout.
  • Verbascum simplex var. warionis (Franch. ex Batt.) Murb.
  • Verbascum thapsiforme var. curtum Merino
  • Verbascum warionis Franch. ex Batt.

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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