Gerbera piloselloides(L.) Cass.

WFO wfo-0000062767 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Gerbera piloselloides, photographed by Di Turner
fig. a Di Turner, CC0 1.0 / 2022-04-30 / obs. 195282797
Gerbera piloselloides, photographed by Di Turner
fig. b Di Turner, CC0 1.0 / obs. 195346035
Gerbera piloselloides, photographed by Paul Emms
fig. c Paul Emms, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 197210669
Gerbera piloselloides, photographed by Matthew Fainman
fig. d Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174088888
Gerbera piloselloides, photographed by Andrew Hankey
fig. e Andrew Hankey, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 171864471
Gerbera piloselloides, photographed by linkie
fig. f linkie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176894086
Gerbera piloselloides, photographed by Matthew Fainman
fig. g Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165359452
Gerbera piloselloides, photographed by Matthew Fainman
fig. h Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 108700498

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Native range 35 botanical countries

Regions where Gerbera piloselloides is native: Angola, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Republic, Congo, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Free State, Guinea, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Somalia, Sudan-South Sudan, Togo, Zambia, Zimbabwe, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Tibet, Yemen, Assam, East Himalaya, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam AngolaCameroonCape ProvincesCentral African RepublicCongoEritreaEswatiniEthiopiaFree StateGuineaKenyaKwaZulu-NatalLesothoMadagascarMozambiqueNorthern ProvincesSomaliaSudan-South SudanTogoZambiaZimbabweChina North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanTibetYemenAssamEast HimalayaLaosLesser Sunda Is.MyanmarNepalThailandVietnam
Native distribution of Gerbera piloselloides, 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
Central African Republic CAF
Congo CON
Eritrea ERI
Eswatini SWZ
Ethiopia ETH
Free State OFS
Guinea GUI
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Lesotho LES
Madagascar MDG
Mozambique MOZ
Northern Provinces TVL
Somalia SOM
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Togo TOG
Zambia ZAM
Zimbabwe ZIM
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
East Himalaya EHM
Laos LAO
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China North-Central CHN ASIA-TEMPERATE
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Tibet CHT
Yemen YEM

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 50 in flower of 74 examined

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Gerbera piloselloides 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. 50 of 74 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 4 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 471 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 0.2 °C 5.1 °C 12.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 21.5 °C 25.2 °C 27.6 °C
Annual rainfall 555 mm 828 mm 1,192 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 16 mm 57 mm 180 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 471 research-grade observations of Gerbera piloselloides 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 19 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.

  • Arnica hirsuta Forssk.
  • Arnica piloselloides L.
  • Doronicum arabicum Lam.
  • Doronicum piloselloides (L.) Lam.
  • Gerbera aberdarica R.E.Fr.
  • Gerbera amabilis Hance
  • Gerbera candollei Sch.Bip.
  • Gerbera hirsuta Less.
  • Gerbera humilis Sch.Bip.
  • Gerbera ovalifolia DC.
  • Gerbera peregrina Steenis
  • Gerbera piloselloides var. concolor Sch.Bip.
  • Gerbera piloselloides var. discolor DC.
  • Gerbera piloselloides var. piloselloides
  • Gerbera schimperi Sch.Bip.
  • Lasiopus candollei DC.
  • Perdicium piloselloides (L.) Hiern
  • Piloselloides hirsuta (Forssk.) C.Jeffrey ex Cufod.
  • Pseudoseris rutenbergii Baill.

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.