Crassula schimperiC.A.Mey.

WFO wfo-0000625447 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Crassula schimperi, photographed by James Deacon
fig. a James Deacon, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-02-19 / obs. 116262839
Crassula schimperi, photographed by James Deacon
fig. b James Deacon, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 115504259
Crassula schimperi, photographed by Andrew Hankey
fig. c Andrew Hankey, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 114529146
Crassula schimperi, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. d Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 90647484
Crassula schimperi, photographed by Jeremy Gilmore
fig. e Jeremy Gilmore, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 62728833
Crassula schimperi, photographed by Chris Vynbos
fig. f Chris Vynbos, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 36482326
Crassula schimperi, photographed by Antoinette Eyssell Knox
fig. g Antoinette Eyssell Knox, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 22406377
Crassula schimperi, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 11162572

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Native range 32 botanical countries

Regions where Crassula schimperi is native: Angola, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Chad, DR Congo, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Free State, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Socotra, Somalia, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Saudi Arabia, Tibet, Yemen, East Himalaya, India, Nepal, Pakistan, West Himalaya AngolaCameroonCape ProvincesChadDR CongoEritreaEswatiniEthiopiaFree StateKenyaKwaZulu-NatalLesothoMalawiMozambiqueNamibiaNorthern ProvincesRwandaSomaliaSudan-South SudanTanzaniaUgandaZambiaZimbabweSaudi ArabiaTibetYemenEast HimalayaIndiaNepalPakistanWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Crassula schimperi, 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
Angola ANG AFRICA
Cameroon CMN
Cape Provinces CPP
Chad CHA
DR Congo ZAI
Eritrea ERI
Eswatini SWZ
Ethiopia ETH
Free State OFS
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Lesotho LES
Malawi MLW
Mozambique MOZ
Namibia NAM
Northern Provinces TVL
Rwanda RWA
Socotra SOC
Somalia SOM
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
Uganda UGA
Zambia ZAM
Zimbabwe ZIM
East Himalaya EHM ASIA-TROPICAL
India IND
Nepal NEP
Pakistan PAK
West Himalaya WHM
Saudi Arabia SAU ASIA-TEMPERATE
Tibet CHT
Yemen YEM

Not drawn on the map: Socotra. 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 159 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -1.2 °C 4.1 °C 11.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 19.6 °C 24.1 °C 28.6 °C
Annual rainfall 493 mm 854 mm 1,288 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 12 mm 43 mm 113 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 159 research-grade observations of Crassula schimperi 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 34 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.

  • Combesia lanceolata (Eckl. & Zeyh.) P.V.Heath
  • Combesia lanceolata subsp. denticulata (Brenan) P.V.Heath
  • Combesia lanceolata subsp. transvaalensis (Kuntze) P.V.Heath
  • Combesia phyturus (Mildbr.) P.V.Heath
  • Combesia schimperi (Fisch. & C.A.Mey.) Schweinf.
  • Crassula filamentosa Schönland
  • Crassula lanceolata (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Endl.
  • Crassula lanceolata subsp. denticulata (Brenan) Toelken
  • Crassula lanceolata subsp. transvaalensis (Kuntze) Toelken
  • Crassula parvifolia E.A.Bruce
  • Crassula pentandra Schönland
  • Crassula pentandra var. denticulata Brenan
  • Crassula pentandra var. phyturus (Mildbr.) Hedberg
  • Crassula phyturus Mildbr.
  • Crassula schimperi f. abbreviata R.Fern.
  • Crassula schimperi f. filamentosa (Schönland) R.Fern.
  • Crassula schimperi subsp. schimperi
  • Crassula schimperi subsp. transvaalensis (Kuntze) R.Fern.
  • Crassula schimperi var. lanceolata (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Toelken
  • Crassula schimperi var. schimperi
  • Crassula selago Dinter
  • Crassula subulata (Hook.) Harv.
  • Crassula tibestica Miré & Quézel
  • Crassula transvaalensis K.Schum.

and 10 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.