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This genus is accepted, and its native range is Europe to Siberia and Iran, Medit. to Arabian Peninsula and NE. Tropical Africa, New Guinea, SE. Australia, New Zealand, Peru.

Native to:

Albania, Algeria, Austria, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Central European Rus, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Madeira, Morocco, Netherlands, New Guinea, New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, North Caucasus, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, South Australia, South European Russi, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tasmania, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Victoria, West Siberia, Yugoslavia

Introduced into:

Alabama, Alberta, Amur, Argentina Northeast, Argentina South, Arkansas, British Columbia, California, Cape Provinces, Chile Central, Colombia, Connecticut, Costa Rica, Delaware, District of Columbia, Ecuador, Florida, Georgia, Guatemala, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Kenya, Khabarovsk, Korea, KwaZulu-Natal, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Newfoundland, North Carolina, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Québec, Rhode I., Sakhalin, Saskatchewan, South Carolina, Tennessee, Uruguay, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin

Scleranthus L. appears in other Kew resources:

First published in Sp. Pl.: 406 (1753)

Accepted by

  • Tutin, T.G. & al. (eds.) (1993). Flora Europaea ed. 2, 1: 1-581. Cambridge University Press.

Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2021. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2021. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0