Skip to main content

Asteraceae

Catananche

Catananche caerulea L.

First published in Sp. Pl.: 812 (1753)

This species is accepted

The native range of this species is Central Europe to W. Medit. It is a perennial and grows primarily in the temperate biome.

Distribution
Synonyms
Publications
Other data

Native to:

Algeria, France, Germany, Italy, Libya, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia

Introduced into:

Great Britain, Jawa

Heterotypic Synonyms

Catananche bicolor Voss in Vilm. Blumengärtn., ed. 3. 1: 556 (1894), pro syn.
Catananche caerulea var. armerioides Debeaux in Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Toulouse 1891: ? (1891)
Catananche propinqua Pomel in Nouv. Mat. Fl. Atl.: 19 (1874)
Cupidonia caerulea Bubani in Fl. Pyren. 2: 47 (1899)

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

Ghazanfar, S.A., Edmondson, J.R. & Hind, D.J.N. (eds.) (2019). Flora of Iraq 6: 1-458. Ministry of Agriculture & Agrarian Reform, Baghdad.
Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

IPNI - The International Plant Names Index

Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Kew Living Collection Database
- Common Names from Plants and People Africa http://www.plantsandpeopleafrica.com/
Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Kew Science Photographs
- Copyright applied to individual images