Cotoneaster integrifolius(Roxb.) G.Klotz

WFO wfo-0000999681 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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.

Cotoneaster integrifolius, photographed by B. Phalan
fig. a B. Phalan, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-25 / obs. 202940362
Cotoneaster integrifolius, photographed by B. Phalan
fig. b B. Phalan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202940329
Cotoneaster integrifolius, photographed by B. Phalan
fig. c B. Phalan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 209005304
Cotoneaster integrifolius, photographed by rmjb
fig. d rmjb, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 101250042
Cotoneaster integrifolius, photographed by rmjb
fig. e rmjb, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 101250080

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Cotoneaster integrifolius is native: China South-Central, Tibet, Assam, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, West Himalaya China South-CentralTibetAssamEast HimalayaMyanmarNepalWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Cotoneaster integrifolius, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
East Himalaya EHM
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
West Himalaya WHM
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
Tibet CHT

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 31 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -1.7 °C 2.3 °C 8.2 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 15.9 °C 18.7 °C 25.6 °C
Annual rainfall 617 mm 1,145 mm 2,230 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 8 mm 178 mm 324 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 31 research-grade observations of Cotoneaster integrifolius 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 35 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.

  • Cotoneaster brandisii G.Klotz
  • Cotoneaster brevirameus Rehder & E.H.Wilson
  • Cotoneaster buxifolius var. lanatus (Ed.Otto) Zabel
  • Cotoneaster buxifolius var. marginatus Loudon
  • Cotoneaster insolitus G.Klotz
  • Cotoneaster lanatus Ed.Otto
  • Cotoneaster linearifolius (G.Klotz) G.Klotz
  • Cotoneaster marginatus (Loudon) Schltdl.
  • Cotoneaster meuselii G.Klotz
  • Cotoneaster microphyllus Lodd.
  • Cotoneaster microphyllus f. lanatus Dippel
  • Cotoneaster microphyllus f. linearifolius G.Klotz
  • Cotoneaster microphyllus f. thymifolius (Wall. ex Lindl.) Zamyatnin
  • Cotoneaster microphyllus var. conspicuus Messel
  • Cotoneaster microphyllus var. thymifolius (Wall. ex Lindl.) Koehne
  • Cotoneaster permutatus G.Klotz
  • Cotoneaster pluriflorus G.Klotz
  • Cotoneaster prostratus Baker
  • Cotoneaster pyrenaicus Rehder
  • Cotoneaster rotundifolius var. lanatus (Ed.Otto) C.K.Schneid.
  • Cotoneaster symondsii Standish ex J.Dix
  • Cotoneaster thymifolius Baker
  • Cotoneaster thymifolius Hort ex Loudon
  • Cotoneaster thymifolius Wall. ex Lindl.

and 11 more.

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.