Hylotelephium maximum(L.) Holub

WFO wfo-0000726956 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Hylotelephium maximum, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. a Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-07-27 / obs. 46936624
Hylotelephium maximum, photographed by Andre Hosper
fig. b Andre Hosper, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 21151900
Hylotelephium maximum, photographed by Thibaud Aronson
fig. c Thibaud Aronson, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 11872411
Hylotelephium maximum, photographed by Andre Hosper
fig. d Andre Hosper, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 10000914
Hylotelephium maximum, photographed by sergleb
fig. e sergleb, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 134087105
Hylotelephium maximum, photographed by sergleb
fig. f sergleb, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 133405674
Hylotelephium maximum, photographed by Екатерина Кропочева
fig. g Екатерина Кропочева, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 76071054
Hylotelephium maximum, photographed by Сергей Крыленко
fig. h Сергей Крыленко, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 71318414

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Native range 32 botanical countries

Regions where Hylotelephium maximum is native: North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, West Siberia, Albania, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, South European Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine North CaucasusTranscaucasusTürkiyeWest SiberiaAlbaniaAustriaBaltic StatesBelarusBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaDenmarkEast European RussiaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyNetherlandsNorth European RussiaNorthwest European RussiaNorwayNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSouth European RussiaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine
Native distribution of Hylotelephium maximum, 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
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Baltic States BLT
Belarus BLR
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Denmark DEN
East European Russia RUE
Finland FIN
France FRA
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Netherlands NET
North European Russia RUN
Northwest European Russia RUW
Norway NOR
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Spain SPA
Sweden SWE
Switzerland SWI
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
North Caucasus NCS ASIA-TEMPERATE
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
West Siberia WSB

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 317 in flower of 655 examined

Peak flowering in Sep. Each bar is the share of Hylotelephium maximum 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. 317 of 655 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 2 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 2,031 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -12.7 °C -6.4 °C -0.2 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 18.9 °C 23.3 °C 26.3 °C
Annual rainfall 517 mm 666 mm 1,236 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 84 mm 110 mm 220 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 2,031 research-grade observations of Hylotelephium maximum 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 46 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.

  • Anacampseros alpestris Jord. & Fourr.
  • Anacampseros aprica Jord. & Fourr.
  • Anacampseros assurgens Jord. & Fourr.
  • Anacampseros cebennensis Jord. & Fourr.
  • Anacampseros chlorotica Jord. & Fourr.
  • Anacampseros collina Jord. & Fourr.
  • Anacampseros corsica Jord. & Fourr.
  • Anacampseros delphinensis Jord. & Fourr.
  • Anacampseros erubescens Jord. & Fourr.
  • Anacampseros maxima (L.) Haw.
  • Anacampseros millieri Jord. & Fourr.
  • Anacampseros minor Jord. & Fourr.
  • Anacampseros pachyphylla Jord. & Fourr.
  • Anacampseros praeruptorum Jord. & Fourr.
  • Anacampseros recurva Jord. & Fourr.
  • Anacampseros serotina Jord. & Fourr.
  • Anacampseros subrotunda Jord. & Fourr.
  • Anacampseros ternata Jord. & Fourr.
  • Anacampseros verlotii Jord. & Fourr.
  • Hylotelephium caucasicum (Grossh.) H.Ohba
  • Hylotelephium haematodes (Mill.) Holub
  • Hylotelephium maximum subsp. scherfelii (Borbás) Dostál
  • Hylotelephium polonicum (Błocki) Holub
  • Hylotelephium ruprechtii (Jalas) Tzvelev

and 22 more.

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.