Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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Native range 22 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Andaman Is. | AND | ASIA-TROPICAL |
| Bangladesh | BAN | |
| India | IND | |
| Jawa | JAW | |
| Laccadive Is. | LDV | |
| Maldives | MDV | |
| Myanmar | MYA | |
| Pakistan | PAK | |
| South China Sea | SCS | |
| Sri Lanka | SRL | |
| Thailand | THA | |
| Vietnam | VIE | |
| Cape Provinces | CPP | AFRICA |
| Kenya | KEN | |
| KwaZulu-Natal | NAT | |
| Madagascar | MDG | |
| Mozambique | MOZ | |
| Somalia | SOM | |
| Tanzania | TAN | |
| China Southeast | CHS | ASIA-TEMPERATE |
| Hainan | CHH | |
| Western Australia | WAU | AUSTRALASIA |
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 163 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | 11.6 °C | 18.3 °C | 25.8 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 25.7 °C | 28.5 °C | 31.7 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 292 mm | 1,195 mm | 1,980 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 3 mm | 121 mm | 281 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 163 research-grade observations of Launaea sarmentosa 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 16 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.
- Ammoseris bellidifolia D.Dietr.
- Ammoseris sarmentosa (Willd.) D.Dietr.
- Ammoseris sarmentosa var. javanica Backer
- Ammoseris sarmentosa var. sarmentosa
- Ammoseris sarmentosus D.Dietr.
- Chondrilla sarmentosa Poir.
- Lactuca sarmentosa (Willd.) DC.
- Launaea bellidifolia Cass.
- Launaea pinnatifida Cass.
- Launaea sarmentosa (Willd.) Merr.
- Launaea sarmentosa var. javanica Back.
- Launaea sarmentosa var. sarmentosa
- Microrhynchus bellidifolius DC.
- Microrhynchus dregeanus DC.
- Microrhynchus sarmentosus DC.
- Prenanthes sarmentosa Willd.
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.
- 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.