Carpesium cernuumL.

WFO wfo-0000002584 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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.

Carpesium cernuum, photographed by Repina Tatyana
fig. a Repina Tatyana, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-08-02 / obs. 47327225
Carpesium cernuum, photographed by Repina Tatyana
fig. b Repina Tatyana, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 44410371
Carpesium cernuum, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. c Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 76123498
Carpesium cernuum, photographed by Repina Tatyana
fig. d Repina Tatyana, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 47327238
Carpesium cernuum, photographed by Repina Tatyana
fig. e Repina Tatyana, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 44410317
Carpesium cernuum, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. f Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 76123639
Carpesium cernuum, photographed by Repina Tatyana
fig. g Repina Tatyana, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 47327082
Carpesium cernuum, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. h Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 76123609

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Native range 33 botanical countries

Regions where Carpesium cernuum is native: Afghanistan, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Iran, Japan, Korea, Manchuria, Nansei-shoto, North Caucasus, Primorye, Taiwan, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Borneo, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, West Himalaya, Austria, Bulgaria, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Hungary, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine AfghanistanChina North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastIranJapanManchuriaNorth CaucasusPrimoryeTaiwanTibetTranscaucasusTürkiyeBorneoMyanmarNepalPakistanPhilippinesWest HimalayaAustriaBulgariaCorseCzechia-SlovakiaFranceHungaryItalyNW. Balkan Pen.RomaniaSpainSwitzerlandUkraine KoreaNansei-shoto
Native distribution of Carpesium cernuum, 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
China North-Central CHN
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Iran IRN
Japan JAP
Korea KOR
Manchuria CHM
Nansei-shoto NNS
North Caucasus NCS
Primorye PRM
Taiwan TAI
Tibet CHT
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Austria AUT EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
Corse COR
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Romania ROM
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR
Borneo BOR ASIA-TROPICAL
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Pakistan PAK
Philippines PHI
West Himalaya WHM

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 158 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -18.6 °C -2.9 °C 3.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 22.9 °C 25.7 °C 29.5 °C
Annual rainfall 660 mm 1,191 mm 2,366 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 38 mm 153 mm 450 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 158 research-grade observations of Carpesium cernuum 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 6 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.

  • Carpesium cernuum var. queenslandica Domin
  • Carpesium glossophylloides Nakai
  • Carpesium pedunculosum Wall. ex DC.
  • Carpesium taquetii H.Lév.
  • Eclipta ciliata Herb.Madr. ex Wall.
  • Ponaea cernua (L.) Bubani

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.