Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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Native range 13 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Chatham Is. | CTM | AUSTRALASIA |
| Kermadec Is. | KER | |
| New South Wales | NSW | |
| New Zealand North | NZN | |
| New Zealand South | NZS | |
| Norfolk Is. | NFK | |
| Queensland | QLD | |
| South Australia | SOA | |
| Tasmania | TAS | |
| Victoria | VIC | |
| New Guinea | NWG | ASIA-TROPICAL |
| Philippines | PHI | |
| Taiwan | TAI | ASIA-TEMPERATE |
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 213 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -1.6 °C | 4.2 °C | 8.9 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 15.8 °C | 21.9 °C | 25.9 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 653 mm | 1,004 mm | 4,767 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 107 mm | 180 mm | 357 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 213 research-grade observations of Euchiton involucratus 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 13 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.
- Euchiton forsteri Cass.
- Euchiton involucratus (G.Forst.) Anderb.
- Euchiton pulchellus Cass.
- Gnaphalium cephaloideum Willd.
- Gnaphalium cunninghamii DC.
- Gnaphalium globosum Hornem.
- Gnaphalium globosum Desf.
- Gnaphalium involucratum G.Forst.
- Gnaphalium involucratum var. planifolium Steetz
- Gnaphalium involucratum var. simplex DC.
- Gnaphalium involucratum var. undulatum Steetz
- Gnaphalium lanatum G.Forst.
- Gnaphalium lineare Hayata
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.