Asphodelus cerasiferJ.Gay

WFO wfo-0001072873 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Asphodelus cerasifer, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. a Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-27 / obs. 201660178
Asphodelus cerasifer, photographed by Bastien Alegot
fig. b Bastien Alegot, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 119882886
Asphodelus cerasifer, photographed by Samuel GUIRAUDOU
fig. c Samuel GUIRAUDOU, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 117109352
Asphodelus cerasifer, photographed by Julien Tchilinguirian
fig. d Julien Tchilinguirian, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 116810323
Asphodelus cerasifer, photographed by Thomas Koffel
fig. e Thomas Koffel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 7585844
Asphodelus cerasifer, photographed by Denys Vynokurov
fig. f Denys Vynokurov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202115079
Asphodelus cerasifer, photographed by Antón David Pérez Rodríguez
fig. g Antón David Pérez Rodríguez, CC0 1.0 / obs. 199761314
Asphodelus cerasifer, photographed by David Delon
fig. h David Delon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198451504

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Flowering 100 in flower of 143 examined

Peak flowering in Apr. Each bar is the share of Asphodelus cerasifer observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 100 of 143 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 507 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -1.2 °C 1.6 °C 6.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 23.9 °C 27.7 °C 31.0 °C
Annual rainfall 368 mm 822 mm 1,346 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 28 mm 107 mm 168 mm

It is found where winters bring light frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 507 research-grade observations of Asphodelus cerasifer 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. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 33 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.

  • Asphodelus albus subsp. cerasiferus (J.Gay) Rouy
  • Asphodelus albus var. comosus (Asch. & Graebn.) Rouy
  • Asphodelus albus var. corsicus (Jord.) Rouy
  • Asphodelus albus var. glaucescens (Jord.) Rouy
  • Asphodelus albus var. grandiflorus (Jord. & Fourr.) Rouy
  • Asphodelus albus var. proterophyllus (Jord.) Rouy
  • Asphodelus albus var. ramosus Gren. & Godr.
  • Asphodelus albus var. rouxii (Jord.) Rouy
  • Asphodelus albus var. validus (Jord.) Rouy
  • Asphodelus albus var. virgatus (Jord.) Rouy
  • Asphodelus australis Jord. & Fourr.
  • Asphodelus cerasiferus J.Gay
  • Asphodelus cerasiferus f. comosus Asch. & Graebn.
  • Asphodelus cerasiferus f. glaucescens (Jord.) Asch. & Graebn.
  • Asphodelus cerasiferus f. rouxii (Jord.) Asch. & Graebn.
  • Asphodelus cerasiferus f. validus (Jord.) Asch. & Graebn.
  • Asphodelus cerasiferus f. virgatus (Jord.) Asch. & Graebn.
  • Asphodelus cerasiferus var. marianus Pau
  • Asphodelus chambeironii Jord.
  • Asphodelus comosus Jord.
  • Asphodelus corsicus Jord.
  • Asphodelus glaucescens Jord.
  • Asphodelus grandiflorus Jord. & Fourr.
  • Asphodelus procerus Jord. & Fourr.

and 9 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

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

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. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.