Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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Native range 5 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Cape Provinces | CPP | AFRICA |
| Free State | OFS | |
| KwaZulu-Natal | NAT | |
| Lesotho | LES | |
| Northern Provinces | TVL |
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 1,221 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | 0.6 °C | 7.1 °C | 13.1 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 19.9 °C | 25.1 °C | 30.1 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 383 mm | 679 mm | 1,466 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 40 mm | 96 mm | 177 mm |
It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 1,221 research-grade observations of Crassula nudicaulis 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 27 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.
- Crassula canescens (Haw.) Sweet
- Crassula cephalophora Thunb.
- Crassula cephalophora var. basutica Schönland
- Crassula cephalophora var. tayloriae Schönland
- Crassula herrei Friedrich
- Crassula hirta Thunb.
- Crassula hirta var. dyeri Schönland
- Crassula lingula D.Dietr.
- Crassula nudicaulis var. nudicaulis
- Crassula obfalcata hort. ex Willd.
- Crassula obvallaris hort. ex DC.
- Crassula obvallata L.
- Crassula platyphylla sensu Schonl., Jacot-Guill., non Harv.
- Crassula platyphylla Harv.
- Crassula sulcata (Haw.) D.Dietr.
- Crassula sulcata (Haw.) D.Dietr.
- Globulea canescens Haw.
- Globulea lingua Haw.
- Globulea nudicaulis (Friedrich) P.V.Heath
- Globulea nudicaulis Haw.
- Globulea nudicaulis var. herrei (Friedrich) P.V.Heath
- Globulea nudicaulis var. platyphylla (Harv.) P.V.Heath
- Globulea obvallata (L.) Haw.
- Globulea sulcata Haw.
and 3 more.
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.