Wahlenbergia cinerea(L.f.) Lammers

WFO wfo-0000819498 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Wahlenbergia cinerea, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. a Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-10-08 / obs. 163501820
Wahlenbergia cinerea, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. b Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 163435739
Wahlenbergia cinerea, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. c Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 16077265
Wahlenbergia cinerea, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. d Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 163975305
Wahlenbergia cinerea, photographed by Charleen Brunke
fig. e Charleen Brunke, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194700831
Wahlenbergia cinerea, photographed by Christina
fig. f Christina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126324281
Wahlenbergia cinerea, photographed by Christina
fig. g Christina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126317699
Wahlenbergia cinerea, photographed by Dave U
fig. h Dave U, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 33608475

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Wahlenbergia cinerea is native: Cape Provinces Cape Provinces
Native distribution of Wahlenbergia cinerea, 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
Cape Provinces CPP AFRICA

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 5 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.

  • Campanula cinerea L.f.
  • Lightfootia albanensis Sond.
  • Lightfootia cinerea (L.f.) Sond.
  • Lightfootia grisea H.Buek
  • Roella cinerea (L.f.) A.DC.

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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