Hypericum tomentosumL.

WFO wfo-0000728403 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Hypericum tomentosum, photographed by Santiago Martín-Bravo
fig. a Santiago Martín-Bravo, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-08 / obs. 204379531
Hypericum tomentosum, photographed by Julien Renoult
fig. b Julien Renoult, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203949226
Hypericum tomentosum, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. c Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203752513
Hypericum tomentosum, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. d Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 159040772
Hypericum tomentosum, photographed by Ricardo Lima
fig. e Ricardo Lima, CC0 1.0 / obs. 84499952
Hypericum tomentosum, photographed by Daniel Franco
fig. f Daniel Franco, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 125393687
Hypericum tomentosum, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. g Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 82286636
Hypericum tomentosum, photographed by Ricardo Lima
fig. h Ricardo Lima, CC0 1.0 / obs. 73498605

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
4961601
Filed as
Hypericum tomentosum L.
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
P. Font Quer 1930-06-12
Origin
MA
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Hypericum tomentosum is native: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Baleares, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain AlgeriaMoroccoTunisiaFranceItalyPortugalSpain Baleares
Native distribution of Hypericum tomentosum, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Baleares BAL EUROPE
France FRA
Italy ITA
Portugal POR
Spain SPA
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN

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 155 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 0.3 °C 4.0 °C 10.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 21.0 °C 29.2 °C 33.0 °C
Annual rainfall 406 mm 743 mm 1,027 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 17 mm 53 mm 130 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 155 research-grade observations of Hypericum tomentosum 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 23 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.

  • Adenosepalum tomentosum (L.) Fourr.
  • Hypericum canescens Trevir.
  • Hypericum carbonellii Sennen & Mauricio
  • Hypericum lusitanicum Poir.
  • Hypericum suberosum Salzm. ex Boiss.
  • Hypericum supinum Clus. ex Vis.
  • Hypericum tomentosum f. racemosum Batt.
  • Hypericum tomentosum prol. lusitanicum (Poir.) Samp.
  • Hypericum tomentosum subsp. carbonelli Sennen & Mauricio
  • Hypericum tomentosum subsp. eutomentosum Maire
  • Hypericum tomentosum subsp. lusitanicum (Poir.) Willk.
  • Hypericum tomentosum subsp. wallianum Maire
  • Hypericum tomentosum var. carbonellii (Sennen & Mauricio) Maire
  • Hypericum tomentosum var. densifolium Sennen
  • Hypericum tomentosum var. dissitiflorum Roem.
  • Hypericum tomentosum var. genuinum Perez Lara
  • Hypericum tomentosum var. genuinum Cout.
  • Hypericum tomentosum var. glabrescens Porta
  • Hypericum tomentosum var. intermedium Lange
  • Hypericum tomentosum var. lusitanicum (Poir.) Pérez Lara
  • Hypericum tomentosum var. palustre Batt.
  • Hypericum tomentosum var. racemosum (Batt.) Rouy & Foucaud
  • Hypericum tomentosum var. suberosum Salzm. ex Pau

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.