Chrysosplenium serreanumHand.-Mazz.

WFO wfo-0000604093 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Chrysosplenium serreanum, photographed by Yuri
fig. a Yuri, CC0 1.0 / 2017-05-24 / obs. 30665443
Chrysosplenium serreanum, photographed by Andrew Bazdyrev
fig. b Andrew Bazdyrev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112348029
Chrysosplenium serreanum, photographed by Фая Баландина
fig. c Фая Баландина, CC0 1.0 / obs. 76840257
Chrysosplenium serreanum, photographed by Юлия
fig. d Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 76345861
Chrysosplenium serreanum, photographed by Юлия
fig. e Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195811031
Chrysosplenium serreanum, photographed by Valerii Glazunov
fig. f Valerii Glazunov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176997766
Chrysosplenium serreanum, photographed by Юлия
fig. g Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 134834310
Chrysosplenium serreanum, photographed by Юлия
fig. h Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 143375616

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Native range 21 botanical countries

Regions where Chrysosplenium serreanum is native: Altay, Amur, Buryatiya, China North-Central, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Japan, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kuril Is., Magadan, Manchuria, Mongolia, Primorye, Sakhalin, Tuva, West Siberia, Yakutiya AltayAmurBuryatiyaChina North-CentralChitaInner MongoliaIrkutskJapanKamchatkaKhabarovskKrasnoyarskMagadanManchuriaMongoliaPrimoryeSakhalinTuvaWest SiberiaYakutiya Korea
Native distribution of Chrysosplenium serreanum, 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
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Amur AMU
Buryatiya BRY
China North-Central CHN
Chita CTA
Inner Mongolia CHI
Irkutsk IRK
Japan JAP
Kamchatka KAM
Khabarovsk KHA
Korea KOR
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Kuril Is. KUR
Magadan MAG
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
Primorye PRM
Sakhalin SAK
Tuva TVA
West Siberia WSB
Yakutiya YAK

Not drawn on the map: Kuril Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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 305 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -35.3 °C -25.4 °C -17.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 12.4 °C 21.1 °C 24.2 °C
Annual rainfall 337 mm 563 mm 1,092 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 13 mm 40 mm 132 mm

It is found where winters are arctic. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 305 research-grade observations of Chrysosplenium serreanum 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.

  • Chrysosplenium alternifolium subsp. sibiricum (Ser. ex DC.) Hultén
  • Chrysosplenium alternifolium var. sibiricum Ser.
  • Chrysosplenium sibiricum (Ser. ex DC.) A.P.Khokhr.

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.