Scabiosa ochroleuca grows in Eastern Europe and Western Asia. The single plant with very long petals on Fig. 1 to 4 originates from Sachsen-Anhalt in Eastern Germany.
In the last years slightly deviant plants have often been used as green for traffic islands in Southwest Germany. The plants of Fig. 21 to 28 which ran wild at a soil depot at Heidelberg were from such an origin, too, they were found together with Clinopodium einseleanum, which is used for the same purpose.