Launaea nudicaulisLess.

WFO wfo-0000022998 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 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.

Launaea nudicaulis, photographed by John Lyden
fig. a John Lyden, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-02-16 / obs. 179654757
Launaea nudicaulis, photographed by Jacky Judas
fig. b Jacky Judas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 87072151
Launaea nudicaulis, photographed by John Lyden
fig. c John Lyden, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179656352
Launaea nudicaulis, photographed by Denys Vynokurov
fig. d Denys Vynokurov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173586636
Launaea nudicaulis, photographed by Jacky Judas
fig. e Jacky Judas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 94418726
Launaea nudicaulis, photographed by Peter Gabler
fig. f Peter Gabler, CC0 1.0 / obs. 61725598
Launaea nudicaulis, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. g Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 40224427
Launaea nudicaulis, photographed by Denys Vynokurov
fig. h Denys Vynokurov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173586644

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Where it actually grows measured, from 257 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 2.0 °C 12.4 °C 16.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 22.6 °C 33.9 °C 42.1 °C
Annual rainfall 43 mm 169 mm 903 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 0 mm 3 mm 30 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 257 research-grade observations of Launaea nudicaulis 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 2 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.

  • Launaea divaricata (Desf.) Andreanszky
  • Rhabdotheca divaricata (Desf.) Webb

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.

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. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.