Aeonium spathulatum

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Aeonium spathulatum, photographed by Andreas Taeger — fig. b Andreas Taeger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200215399

Aeonium spathulatum, photographed by Philipp — fig. c Philipp, CC0 1.0 / obs. 143920335

Aeonium spathulatum, photographed by Ina Siebert — fig. d Ina Siebert, CC0 1.0 / obs. 61079105

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Native range 1 botanical country

Native distribution of Aeonium spathulatum, 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
Canary Is.	CNY	AFRICA

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 334 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	4.9 °C	9.5 °C	13.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	22.2 °C	23.0 °C	25.9 °C
Annual rainfall	378 mm	643 mm	785 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	4 mm	10 mm	15 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 334 research-grade observations of Aeonium spathulatum 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 9 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.

Aeonium bentejui Webb ex Christ
Aeonium cruentum Webb & Berthel.
Aeonium strepsicladum Webb & Berthel.
Aldasorea strepsiclada hort. ex Haage & Schmidt
Sempervivum barbatum Hornem.
Sempervivum bentejui (Webb ex Christ) Christ
Sempervivum lineolare Haw.
Sempervivum pulchellum Walp.
Sempervivum spathulatum Hornem.

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.