Lepidozia reptans(L.) Dumort.

WFO wfo-0001196436 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Lepidozia reptans, photographed by Braden J. Judson
fig. a Braden J. Judson, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-17 / obs. 198912988
Lepidozia reptans, photographed by Braden J. Judson
fig. b Braden J. Judson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 198903016
Lepidozia reptans, photographed by Randal
fig. c Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 198290210
Lepidozia reptans, photographed by Braden J. Judson
fig. d Braden J. Judson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197679848
Lepidozia reptans, photographed by Braden J. Judson
fig. e Braden J. Judson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197111040
Lepidozia reptans, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. f Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194838637
Lepidozia reptans, photographed by Randal
fig. g Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 190431658
Lepidozia reptans, photographed by Braden J. Judson
fig. h Braden J. Judson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 190721121

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Where it actually grows measured, from 2,002 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -10.5 °C -0.7 °C 4.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 16.6 °C 21.8 °C 24.9 °C
Annual rainfall 639 mm 1,470 mm 3,882 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 100 mm 208 mm 377 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 2,002 research-grade observations of Lepidozia reptans 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 31 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.

  • Herpetium reptans (L.) Nees
  • Herpetium reptans f. julaceum Nees
  • Herpetium reptans f. tenerum (Huebener) Nees
  • Jungermannia reptans L.
  • Jungermannia reptans var. delicatula Huebener
  • Jungermannia reptans var. filiformis Hook.
  • Jungermannia reptans var. geophila Wallr.
  • Jungermannia reptans var. reptans
  • Jungermannia reptans var. tenera Huebener
  • Jungermannia reptans var. xylophila Wallr.
  • Lepidozia chinensis Steph.
  • Lepidozia himalayensis Steph.
  • Lepidozia hokinensis Steph.
  • Lepidozia liebmanniana Steph.
  • Lepidozia macrocalyx Steph.
  • Lepidozia macropatens Herzog
  • Lepidozia obliqua Steph.
  • Lepidozia pinnata var. tenera (Huebener) Jørg.
  • Lepidozia reptans f. reptans
  • Lepidozia reptans f. terricola Schiffn.
  • Lepidozia reptans var. aquatica Schiffn.
  • Lepidozia reptans var. julacea (Nees) Gottsche, Lindenb. & Nees
  • Lepidozia reptans var. laxa Schiffn.
  • Lepidozia reptans var. reptans

and 7 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.

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.