Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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Native range 2 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Algeria | ALG | AFRICA |
| Morocco | MOR |
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 826 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -5.0 °C | -1.2 °C | 5.6 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 23.3 °C | 27.5 °C | 31.1 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 481 mm | 857 mm | 1,190 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 31 mm | 58 mm | 198 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 826 research-grade observations of Cedrus atlantica 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 23 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.
- Abies atlantica (Endl.) Lindl. & Gordon
- Cedrus africana Gordon ex Knight
- Cedrus argentea hort. ex Carrière
- Cedrus atlantica f. argentea (hort. ex Carrière) Rehder
- Cedrus atlantica f. fastigiata (Carrière) Rehder
- Cedrus atlantica f. glauca (Carrière) Beissn.
- Cedrus atlantica f. pendula (Carrière) Rehder
- Cedrus atlantica var. argentea (hort. ex Carrière) A.Murray
- Cedrus atlantica var. glauca Carrière
- Cedrus atlantica var. pendula Carrière
- Cedrus atlantica var. variegata Carrière
- Cedrus libani f. glauca (Carrière) Beissn. & Fitschen
- Cedrus libani f. glauca (Carrière) Geerinck
- Cedrus libani f. glaucissima P.D.Sell
- Cedrus libani subsp. atlantica (Endl.) Batt. & Trab.
- Cedrus libani var. africana A.Murray bis
- Cedrus libani var. atlantica (Endl.) Hook.f.
- Cedrus libani var. glauca Carrière
- Cedrus libanitica subsp. atlantica (Endl.) O.Schwartz
- Cedrus libanotica subsp. atlantica (Endl.) Jahand. & Maire
- Cedrus libanotica var. glauca Carrière
- Pinus atlantica Endl.
- Pinus cedrus var. atlantica (Endl.) Parl.
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.
- Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. 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.