Fumana procumbens

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Fumana procumbens, photographed by Yves Bas — fig. b Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 77176725

Fumana procumbens, photographed by Nans — fig. c Nans, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 53961237

Fumana procumbens, photographed by Emanuele Santarelli — fig. d Emanuele Santarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 50496016

Fumana procumbens, photographed by Christina s.l. — fig. e Christina s.l., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 42097943

Fumana procumbens, photographed by Vitaliy Rudenko — fig. f Vitaliy Rudenko, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32214446

Fumana procumbens, photographed by Jason Grant — fig. g Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 4980152

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Native range 28 botanical countries

Native distribution of Fumana procumbens, 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
Albania	ALB	EUROPE
Austria	AUT
Baleares	BAL
Belgium	BGM
Bulgaria	BUL
Czechia-Slovakia	CZE
France	FRA
Germany	GER
Greece	GRC
Italy	ITA
Krym	KRY
Portugal	POR
Romania	ROM
Sardegna	SAR
Sicilia	SIC
Spain	SPA
Sweden	SWE
Switzerland	SWI
Türkiye-in-Europe	TUE
Ukraine	UKR
Iran	IRN	ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iraq	IRQ
Lebanon-Syria	LBS
North Caucasus	NCS
Transcaucasus	TCS
Türkiye	TUR
Turkmenistan	TKM
Morocco	MOR	AFRICA

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.

Flowering 85 in flower of 135 examined

14%

71%

76%

67%

78%

80%

Proportion of examined Fumana procumbens in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	2	too few examined
Feb	0	2	too few examined
Mar	0	3	too few examined
Apr	1	7	14%	3% to 51%
May	24	34	71%	54% to 83%
Jun	32	42	76%	61% to 87%
Jul	12	18	67%	44% to 84%
Aug	7	9	78%	45% to 94%
Sep	8	10	80%	49% to 94%
Oct	1	2	too few examined
Nov	0	2	too few examined
Dec	0	4	too few examined

Peak flowering in Sep. Each bar is the share of Fumana procumbens observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 85 of 135 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 6 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 1,228 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	-8.2 °C	-2.4 °C	1.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	21.8 °C	25.3 °C	28.6 °C
Annual rainfall	521 mm	763 mm	1,396 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	56 mm	135 mm	241 mm

It is found where winters bring hard 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 1,228 research-grade observations of Fumana procumbens 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. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 20 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.

Cistus fumana L.
Cistus nudifolius Lam.
Cistus parviflorus Gaterau
Fumana baetica Güemes
Fumana ericoides var. crassipes Maire
Fumana ericoides var. opistotricha Maire
Fumana fumana (L.) H.Karst.
Fumana minor Raf.
Fumana minor Nyman
Fumana nudifolia Janch.
Fumana vulgaris var. minor Spach
Helianthemon fumanum St.-Lag.
Helianthemum calycinum Willd.
Helianthemum fumana Mill.
Helianthemum fumana var. majus W.D.J.Koch
Helianthemum fumana var. procumbens (Dunal) Benth.
Helianthemum fumanioides Desf. ex Dunal
Helianthemum fumanum Moench
Helianthemum procumbens Dunal
Helianthemum spachii Nyman

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.