Viscum albumL.

European mistletoe

WFO wfo-0000424722 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Viscum album, photographed by Pete Bradshaw
fig. a Pete Bradshaw, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 204961630
Viscum album, photographed by Johannes Schlagbauer
fig. b Johannes Schlagbauer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204083404
Viscum album, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. c Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205218443
Viscum album, photographed by Edmundas Greimas
fig. d Edmundas Greimas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200020381
Viscum album, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. e Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202656140
Viscum album, photographed by Liubov Ilminska
fig. f Liubov Ilminska, CC0 1.0 / obs. 199026786
Viscum album, photographed by aga_l_
fig. g aga_l_, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195143850
Viscum album, photographed by Radosław Puchałka
fig. h Radosław Puchałka, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197083063

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Flowering n = 188 observations

Peak flowering in Mar, from 188 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 11 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.

  • Stelin album (L.) Bubani
  • Viscum abietis (Wiesb.) Fritsch
  • Viscum album var. album
  • Viscum album var. meridianum Danser
  • Viscum austriacum var. abietis Wiesb.
  • Viscum austriacum var. pini Wiesb.
  • Viscum costatum Gamble
  • Viscum laxum Boiss. & Reut.
  • Viscum laxum subsp. abietis O.Schwarz
  • Viscum polycoccon Houtt.
  • Viscum stellatum Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don

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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.