Aspilia montevidensis(Spreng.) Kuntze

WFO wfo-0000079541 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Aspilia montevidensis, photographed by Magdalena Carabio Foti
fig. a Magdalena Carabio Foti, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-21 / obs. 199490982
Aspilia montevidensis, photographed by Florencia Grattarola
fig. b Florencia Grattarola, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197624742
Aspilia montevidensis, photographed by Florencia Grattarola
fig. c Florencia Grattarola, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197625246
Aspilia montevidensis, photographed by Sergio Olalde
fig. d Sergio Olalde, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184707600
Aspilia montevidensis, photographed by Diego Dos Anjos Souza
fig. e Diego Dos Anjos Souza, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179493284
Aspilia montevidensis, photographed by Florencia Grattarola
fig. f Florencia Grattarola, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174879970
Aspilia montevidensis, photographed by Cecilia Pombo Posente
fig. g Cecilia Pombo Posente, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166245884
Aspilia montevidensis, photographed by Fernando Sessegolo
fig. h Fernando Sessegolo, CC0 1.0 / obs. 159654064

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Where it actually grows measured, from 487 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 6.6 °C 9.0 °C 12.3 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 24.0 °C 28.7 °C 31.6 °C
Annual rainfall 1,133 mm 1,364 mm 1,856 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 143 mm 259 mm 373 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 487 research-grade observations of Aspilia montevidensis 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 3 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.

  • Aspilia buphthalmiflora var. angustifolia (DC.) Baker
  • Aspilia montevidensis var. angustifolia (DC.) Kuntze
  • Aspilia setosa f. robusta Chodat

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.