Adenocaulon himalaicum

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Adenocaulon himalaicum, photographed by Николай Гнездилов — fig. c Николай Гнездилов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176045715

Adenocaulon himalaicum, photographed by Eugene Popov — fig. d Eugene Popov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 92776790

Adenocaulon himalaicum, photographed by Oleg Kosterin — fig. e Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 99583723

Adenocaulon himalaicum, photographed by Repina Tatyana — fig. f Repina Tatyana, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 48540517

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Native distribution of Adenocaulon himalaicum, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Amur	AMU	ASIA-TEMPERATE
China North-Central	CHN
China South-Central	CHC
China Southeast	CHS
Inner Mongolia	CHI
Japan	JAP
Khabarovsk	KHA
Korea	KOR
Kuril Is.	KUR
Manchuria	CHM
Primorye	PRM
Sakhalin	SAK
Tibet	CHT
East Himalaya	EHM	ASIA-TROPICAL
Nepal	NEP
West Himalaya	WHM

Not drawn on the map: Kuril Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 791 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	-22.0 °C	-10.9 °C	-4.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	21.6 °C	23.0 °C	27.8 °C
Annual rainfall	676 mm	718 mm	2,000 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	39 mm	112 mm	200 mm

It is found where winters are severely cold. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 791 research-grade observations of Adenocaulon himalaicum that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 2 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.

Adenocaulon adhaerescens Maxim.
Adenocaulon bicolor var. adhaerescens (Maxim.) Makino

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.