Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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Native range 23 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Angola | ANG | AFRICA |
| Botswana | BOT | |
| Burundi | BUR | |
| Cameroon | CMN | |
| Cape Provinces | CPP | |
| DR Congo | ZAI | |
| Eswatini | SWZ | |
| Ethiopia | ETH | |
| Free State | OFS | |
| Kenya | KEN | |
| KwaZulu-Natal | NAT | |
| Lesotho | LES | |
| Madagascar | MDG | |
| Malawi | MLW | |
| Mozambique | MOZ | |
| Namibia | NAM | |
| Nigeria | NGA | |
| Northern Provinces | TVL | |
| Sudan-South Sudan | SUD | |
| Tanzania | TAN | |
| Uganda | UGA | |
| Zambia | ZAM | |
| Zimbabwe | ZIM |
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 168 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | 0.0 °C | 4.9 °C | 11.3 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 21.3 °C | 25.4 °C | 29.4 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 517 mm | 926 mm | 1,276 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 11 mm | 44 mm | 135 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 168 research-grade observations of Hypericum lalandii 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 14 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.
- Hypericum baumii Engl. & Gilg
- Hypericum baumii var. intermedium Engl. & Gilg
- Hypericum comorense Baill.
- Hypericum comorense Drake
- Hypericum japonicum var. latifolium (Sond.) Baron
- Hypericum japonicum var. stenocarpum (Drake) H.Perrier
- Hypericum lalandii var. lanceolatum Sond.
- Hypericum lalandii var. latifolium Sond.
- Hypericum lalandii var. macropetalum Sond.
- Hypericum lalandii var. madagascariense R.Keller
- Hypericum lalandii var. transvaalense Bredell
- Hypericum lalandii var. valderamosum Suess. & Merxm.
- Hypericum madagascariense (R.Keller) R.Keller
- Hypericum stenocarpum Drake
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.
- Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
- 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.