Chlorophytum graminifolium

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Chlorophytum graminifolium, photographed by Peter Warren — fig. b Peter Warren, CC0 1.0 / obs. 26883341

Chlorophytum graminifolium, photographed by Tony Rebelo — fig. c Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15165638

Chlorophytum graminifolium, photographed by magriet b — fig. d magriet b, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 31133446

Chlorophytum graminifolium, photographed by kevin koen — fig. e kevin koen, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 106750804

Chlorophytum graminifolium, photographed by Chris Vynbos — fig. f Chris Vynbos, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 24463474

Chlorophytum graminifolium, photographed by Brian du Preez — fig. g Brian du Preez, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 48500971

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Native range 1 botanical country

Native distribution of Chlorophytum graminifolium, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Cape Provinces	CPP	AFRICA

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 107 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	4.2 °C	6.8 °C	11.3 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	22.7 °C	29.2 °C	31.9 °C
Annual rainfall	258 mm	637 mm	2,389 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	19 mm	53 mm	220 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 107 research-grade observations of Chlorophytum graminifolium 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 14 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.

Anthericum bolusii Baker
Anthericum dielsii Poelln.
Anthericum graminifolium Willd.
Anthericum pleiophyllum Schltr. ex Poelln.
Anthericum triflorum var. minor Baker
Anthericum tumidum Poelln.
Anthericum undulatum Jacq.
Bulbine undulata (Poir.) Spreng.
Chlorophytum jacquinii Govaerts
Chlorophytum piquetbergense Poelln.
Chlorophytum tuberculatum A.V.Duthie
Chlorophytum undulatum (Poir.) Oberm.
Phalangium graminifolium (Willd.) Pers.
Phalangium undulatum Poir.

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.
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.