Camphorosma monspeliacaL.

WFO wfo-0000583032 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Camphorosma monspeliaca, photographed by Denys Vynokurov
fig. a Denys Vynokurov, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-30 / obs. 202115248
Camphorosma monspeliaca, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. b Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198323670
Camphorosma monspeliaca, photographed by Julien Renoult
fig. c Julien Renoult, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194809228
Camphorosma monspeliaca, photographed by Alessia Guggisberg
fig. d Alessia Guggisberg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189096327
Camphorosma monspeliaca, photographed by Juraj Ahel
fig. e Juraj Ahel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160728448
Camphorosma monspeliaca, photographed by Juraj Ahel
fig. f Juraj Ahel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160703844
Camphorosma monspeliaca, photographed by Flora_DUMO
fig. g Flora_DUMO, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176275724
Camphorosma monspeliaca, photographed by Andrew Bazdyrev
fig. h Andrew Bazdyrev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 134330977

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Native range 33 botanical countries

Regions where Camphorosma monspeliaca is native: Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Afghanistan, Altay, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Mongolia, North Caucasus, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Pakistan, Albania, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Corse, East European Russia, France, Greece, Italy, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Sardegna, Sicilia, South European Russia, Ukraine AlgeriaLibyaMoroccoTunisiaAfghanistanAltayIranKazakhstanKirgizstanMongoliaNorth CaucasusTadzhikistanTranscaucasusTürkiyeTurkmenistanUzbekistanWest SiberiaXinjiangPakistanAlbaniaBulgariaCentral European RussiaCorseEast European RussiaFranceGreeceItalyKrymNW. Balkan Pen.SiciliaSouth European RussiaUkraine Sardegna
Native distribution of Camphorosma monspeliaca, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
Altay ALT
Iran IRN
Kazakhstan KAZ
Kirgizstan KGZ
Mongolia MON
North Caucasus NCS
Tadzhikistan TZK
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Turkmenistan TKM
Uzbekistan UZB
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX
Albania ALB EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Corse COR
East European Russia RUE
France FRA
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
South European Russia RUS
Ukraine UKR
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Libya LBY
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
Pakistan PAK ASIA-TROPICAL

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 837 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -15.3 °C 4.9 °C 8.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 24.7 °C 26.4 °C 30.7 °C
Annual rainfall 296 mm 571 mm 965 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 33 mm 75 mm 158 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 837 research-grade observations of Camphorosma monspeliaca 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 15 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.

  • Camphorata hirsuta Moench
  • Camphorata monspeliaca (L.) Crantz
  • Camphorata perennis (Pall.) Kuntze
  • Camphorata ruthenica (M.Bieb.) Kuntze
  • Camphorosma glabra L.
  • Camphorosma hirsuta Stokes
  • Camphorosma lessingii Litv.
  • Camphorosma lessingii var. pulviniformis Mulk.
  • Camphorosma monspeliaca subsp. monspeliaca
  • Camphorosma monspeliaca var. pulviniformis (Mulk.) Akopian
  • Camphorosma monspeliense L.
  • Camphorosma nestensis Turrill
  • Camphorosma perennis Pall.
  • Camphorosma ruthenica M.Bieb.
  • Camphorosma vigintimilleis Tineo

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.
  3. 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.