Plate 1 figs. a–g · 1 observation
This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.
Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.
Native range 1 botanical country
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Cape Provinces | CPP | 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.
Where it actually grows measured, from 34 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | 5.6 °C | 6.4 °C | 6.8 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 29.0 °C | 30.0 °C | 30.3 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 345 mm | 513 mm | 586 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 47 mm | 54 mm | 74 mm |
It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 34 research-grade observations of Haworthia herbacea 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 32 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.
- Aloe arachnoidea var. pellucens (Haw.) Salm-Dyck
- Aloe atrovirens DC.
- Aloe bradlyana Jacq.
- Aloe herbacea Mill.
- Aloe pallida (Haw.) Schult. & Schult.f.
- Aloe pellucens Haw.
- Aloe pumila (Aiton) Haw.
- Aloe translucens (Willd.) Sol. ex W.T.Aiton
- Apicra atrovirens (DC.) Willd.
- Apicra translucens Willd.
- Catevala atroviridis Medik.
- Catevala pallida (Haw.) Kuntze
- Catevala papillosa (Haw.) Kuntze
- Catevala translucens (Willd.) Kuntze
- Haworthia aegrota Poelln.
- Haworthia arachnoidea var. translucens (Willd.) Halda
- Haworthia atrovirens (DC.) Haw.
- Haworthia flaccida (M.B.Bayer) Breuer
- Haworthia herbacea var. paynei (Poelln.) M.B.Bayer
- Haworthia lupula (M.B.Bayer) M.Hayashi
- Haworthia luteorosea Uitewaal
- Haworthia pallida Haw.
- Haworthia pallida var. flaccida (M.B.Bayer) M.Hayashi
- Haworthia pallida var. paynei (Poelln.) Poelln.
and 8 more.
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.