Helichrysum nudifolium

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Helichrysum nudifolium, photographed by Di Turner — fig. b Di Turner, CC0 1.0 / obs. 195541595

Helichrysum nudifolium, photographed by Jeremy Gilmore — fig. c Jeremy Gilmore, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181547307

Helichrysum nudifolium, photographed by Matthew Fainman — fig. d Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172504416

Helichrysum nudifolium, photographed by Andrew Hankey — fig. f Andrew Hankey, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 158579587

Helichrysum nudifolium, photographed by linkie — fig. g linkie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150486953

Helichrysum nudifolium, photographed by Tony Rebelo — fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 117060966

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Native range 23 botanical countries

Native distribution of Helichrysum nudifolium, 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
Angola	ANG	AFRICA
Botswana	BOT
Burundi	BUR
Cameroon	CMN
Cape Provinces	CPP
Central African Republic	CAF
DR Congo	ZAI
Eswatini	SWZ
Ethiopia	ETH
Free State	OFS
Kenya	KEN
KwaZulu-Natal	NAT
Lesotho	LES
Malawi	MLW
Mozambique	MOZ
Northern Provinces	TVL
Rwanda	RWA
Sudan-South Sudan	SUD
Tanzania	TAN
Uganda	UGA
Zambia	ZAM
Zimbabwe	ZIM
Yemen	YEM	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.

Flowering 153 in flower of 190 examined

84%

95%

91%

50%

43%

75%

79%

77%

87%

Proportion of examined Helichrysum nudifolium in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	26	31	84%	67% to 93%
Feb	37	39	95%	83% to 99%
Mar	10	11	91%	62% to 98%
Apr	6	12	50%	25% to 75%
May	2	3	too few examined
Jun	0	0	too few examined
Jul	1	2	too few examined
Aug	3	7	43%	16% to 75%
Sep	12	16	75%	51% to 90%
Oct	19	24	79%	60% to 91%
Nov	17	22	77%	57% to 90%
Dec	20	23	87%	68% to 95%

Peak flowering in Feb. Each bar is the share of Helichrysum nudifolium 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. 153 of 190 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 3 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 951 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	0.2 °C	4.4 °C	12.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	22.0 °C	25.7 °C	28.0 °C
Annual rainfall	584 mm	779 mm	1,162 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	16 mm	45 mm	141 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 951 research-grade observations of Helichrysum nudifolium 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 47 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.

Anaxeton nudifolium (L.) Gaertn.
Euchloris nudifolia (L.) D.Don
Gnaphalium acuminatissimum Sch.Bip.
Gnaphalium crispum L.f.
Gnaphalium elatum Lam.
Gnaphalium gerberifolium Sch.Bip.
Gnaphalium glabrum Eckl. ex DC.
Gnaphalium latifolium Thunb.
Gnaphalium leiopodium Sch.Bip.
Gnaphalium multinerve Sch.Bip.
Gnaphalium nudifolium L.
Gnaphalium pallens Sch.Bip.
Gnaphalium pilosellum L.f.
Gnaphalium plantagineum Burm.f.
Gnaphalium plantaginifoliatum Kuntze
Gnaphalium quinquenerve Thunb.
Gnaphalium undatum J.F.Gmel.
Helichrysum albidobracteatum De Wild.
Helichrysum albiflorum Moeser
Helichrysum alismatifolium Moeser
Helichrysum amoenum Moeser
Helichrysum asperifolium Moeser
Helichrysum brunneum Burtt Davy
Helichrysum davyi S.Moore

and 23 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.