Heliconia ramonensisG.S.Daniels & F.G.Stiles

WFO wfo-0000438637 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 3 separate observations

Heliconia ramonensis, photographed by harrier
fig. a harrier, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-12-29 / obs. 174067046
Heliconia ramonensis, photographed by harrier
fig. b harrier, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176214825
Heliconia ramonensis, photographed by Diane Shaw
fig. c Diane Shaw, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60752648

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Regions where Heliconia ramonensis is native: Costa Rica, Panamá Costa RicaPanamá
Native distribution of Heliconia ramonensis, 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
Costa Rica COS SOUTHERN AMERICA
Panamá PAN

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 49 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 16.0 °C 18.8 °C 20.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 24.4 °C 26.2 °C 27.8 °C
Annual rainfall 2,797 mm 2,889 mm 5,411 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 133 mm 142 mm 365 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 49 research-grade observations of Heliconia ramonensis 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

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.