Helichrysum sanguineum

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 times, 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.

Helichrysum sanguineum, photographed by Oleg Kosterin — fig. a Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-04-09 / obs. 110520305

Helichrysum sanguineum, photographed by Dan Killam — fig. b Dan Killam, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 38480761

Helichrysum sanguineum, photographed by Nasser Halaweh — fig. c Nasser Halaweh, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18164092

Helichrysum sanguineum, photographed by Dan Wrench — fig. e Dan Wrench, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115978438

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Native distribution of Helichrysum sanguineum, 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
Lebanon-Syria	LBS	ASIA-TEMPERATE
Palestine	PAL
Türkiye	TUR

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 133 in flower of 180 examined

33%

89%

98%

94%

Proportion of examined Helichrysum sanguineum in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	0	too few examined
Feb	0	8	0%	0% to 32%
Mar	14	42	33%	21% to 48%
Apr	55	62	89%	78% to 94%
May	47	48	98%	89% to 100%
Jun	17	18	94%	74% to 99%
Jul	0	2	too few examined
Aug	0	0	too few examined
Sep	0	0	too few examined
Oct	0	0	too few examined
Nov	0	0	too few examined
Dec	0	0	too few examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Helichrysum sanguineum 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. 133 of 180 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 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.

Also published as 1 synonym

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.

Gnaphalium sanguineum L.

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.