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Chamaebuxus unguiculata (Poir.) J.F.B.Pastore

Polygalaceae · Austria, Czechoslovakia +6

English names not checked: Wikidata's common names were not read for this page.

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Summary

Chamaebuxus alpestris, synonyms including Polygaloides chamaebuxus, Polygala chamaebuxus, the shrubby milkwort, is an ornamental plant in the family Polygalaceae.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Chamaebuxus alpestris", CC BY-SA 4.0; its title is one of this species' older names (GBIF Backbone), which is the proof that the article is this species'.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: No georeferenced record inside the range.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.

This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the key of the name Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 4049790 (Polygala unguiculata Poir., 0 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeAustria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, Romania, Yugoslavia · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“subshrub” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo georeferenced records inside the stated native range.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 4049790 (Polygala unguiculata Poir.): Kew's file holds it as Polygala unguiculata Poir. (synonym under Chamaebuxus unguiculata (Poir.) J.F.B.Pastore); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.

Photographs

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Photographs: Nick, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Amada44, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Ghislain118 (AD) http://www.fleurs-des-montagnes.net, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Ghislain118 http://www.fleurs-des-montagnes.net, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Philipp Weigell, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2).

Other Chamaebuxus 3 in the reference

Chamaebuxus balansae Chamaebuxus balansae Polygalaceae Photo: CC BY, ashley BALSAM bazChamaebuxus paucifolia Chamaebuxus paucifolia Polygalaceae Photo: Public domain, Homer D. House, New York State…Chamaebuxus vayredae Chamaebuxus vayredae Polygalaceae Photo: CC0, Daderot

Names & registers

Also known as Tertria chamaebuxus; Polygala buxifolia; Polygala chamaebuxus; Polygaloides chamaebuxus; Polygala unguiculata and 10 more. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Polygalaceae
Described by
(Poir.) J.F.B.Pastore
Native to
Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany +5
Wild records
none in range

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Chamaebuxus unguiculata (Poir.) J.F.B.Pastore (plant_name_id 3324243), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; 0 records of GBIF's key 4049790, Polygala unguiculata Poir. (Kew's file holds it as Polygala unguiculata Poir. (synonym under Chamaebuxus unguiculata (Poir.) J.F.B.Pastore)): GBIF occurrence search API
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no georeferenced record inside the range
Wikidata wikidata nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no item carries Kew's IPNI identifier 77364668-1, POWO 77364668-1
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22Wikipedia redirects Chamaebuxus unguiculata to Chamaebuxus alpestris, an older name of this species (Chamaebuxus alpestris)
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence.

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