Coccothrinax argentata (Florida silver palm)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Coccothrinax argentata, photographed by Alison Northup — fig. a Alison Northup, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-11-17 / obs. 169263538

Coccothrinax argentata, photographed by Michelle Sevcovas — fig. b Michelle Sevcovas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 117685628

Coccothrinax argentata, photographed by Ben Machado — fig. c Ben Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 56209439

Coccothrinax argentata, photographed by Alan Weakley — fig. d Alan Weakley, CC0 1.0 / obs. 4524947

Coccothrinax argentata, photographed by Seig — fig. f Seig, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 105636108

Coccothrinax argentata, photographed by Jay Horn — fig. g Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203663052

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Native distribution of Coccothrinax argentata, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Bahamas	BAH	SOUTHERN AMERICA
Colombia	CLM
Southwest Caribbean	SWC
Turks-Caicos Is.	TCI
Florida	FLA	NORTHERN AMERICA

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 410 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	16.2 °C	19.0 °C	21.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	28.5 °C	29.4 °C	30.7 °C
Annual rainfall	1,066 mm	1,453 mm	1,542 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	140 mm	147 mm	172 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 410 research-grade observations of Coccothrinax argentata 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 7 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.

Coccothrinax garberi (Chapm.) Sarg.
Coccothrinax jucunda Sarg.
Coccothrinax jucunda var. macrosperma Becc.
Coccothrinax jucunda var. marquesensis Becc.
Palma argentata Jacq.
Thrinax altissima N.Taylor
Thrinax garberi Chapm.

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.