Plate 1 figs. a–g · 5 observations
This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.
Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.
Native range 18 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| China North-Central | CHN | ASIA-TEMPERATE |
| Japan | JAP | |
| Kamchatka | KAM | |
| Khabarovsk | KHA | |
| Kuril Is. | KUR | |
| Magadan | MAG | |
| Sakhalin | SAK | |
| West Siberia | WSB | |
| Yakutiya | YAK | |
| Alaska | ASK | NORTHERN AMERICA |
| British Columbia | BRC | |
| Manitoba | MAN | |
| Northwest Territories | NWT | |
| Nunavut | NUN | |
| Ontario | ONT | |
| Québec | QUE | |
| Yukon | YUK | |
| North European Russia | RUN | EUROPE |
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 226 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -28.6 °C | -10.6 °C | -3.0 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 9.5 °C | 13.7 °C | 16.7 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 497 mm | 939 mm | 2,615 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 56 mm | 114 mm | 438 mm |
It is found where winters are arctic. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 226 research-grade observations of Arctanthemum arcticum 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 11 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.
- Arctanthemum kurilense (Tzvelev) Tzvelev
- Chrysanthemum adustum Fisch. ex Herder
- Chrysanthemum arcticum L.
- Chrysanthemum arcticum subsp. arcticum
- Chrysanthemum arcticum subsp. gmelinii (Ledeb.) Kitam.
- Chrysanthemum arcticum var. arcticum
- Dendranthema arcticum (L.) Tzvelev
- Dendranthema arcticum subsp. arcticum
- Leucanthemum arcticum (L.) DC.
- Leucanthemum arcticum subsp. arcticum
- Leucanthemum kurilense (Tzvelev) Vorosch.
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.
- USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol CHAR13. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
- 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.