Halerpestes uniflora

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Halerpestes uniflora, photographed by Zoltán Stekkelpak — fig. b Zoltán Stekkelpak, CC0 1.0 / obs. 168001623

Halerpestes uniflora, photographed by Hugo Hulsberg — fig. d Hugo Hulsberg, CC0 1.0 / obs. 188527923

Halerpestes uniflora, photographed by Humber Alberto — fig. f Humber Alberto, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194361780

Halerpestes uniflora, photographed by Matt Berger — fig. g Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 57482540

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Native distribution of Halerpestes uniflora, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Argentina Northwest	AGW	SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina South	AGS
Bolivia	BOL
Chile Central	CLC
Chile North	CLN
Chile South	CLS
Peru	PER

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 45 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	-11.8 °C	-3.5 °C	0.3 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	11.4 °C	13.3 °C	20.2 °C
Annual rainfall	255 mm	540 mm	1,401 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	7 mm	35 mm	114 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 45 research-grade observations of Halerpestes uniflora 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 10 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.

Ranunculus aberrans Phil. ex Reiche
Ranunculus arequipensis Ulbr.
Ranunculus bolivianus Phil.
Ranunculus bovei Speg.
Ranunculus potamogetonoides (Speg.) Speg.
Ranunculus pseudocaltha Chodat
Ranunculus pseudocaltha f. minor Chodat
Ranunculus uniflorus Phil. ex Reiche
Ranunculus uniflorus f. bolivianus (Phil.) Lourteig
Ranunculus uniflorus f. uniflorus

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.