Patellifolia procumbens(C.Sm. ex Hornem.) A.J.Scott, Ford-Lloyd & J.T.Williams

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WFO wfo-0000395224 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Patellifolia procumbens, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. a Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-12-26 / obs. 173760955
Patellifolia procumbens, photographed by Santiago Martín-Bravo
fig. b Santiago Martín-Bravo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 151520589
Patellifolia procumbens, photographed by Andre Hosper
fig. c Andre Hosper, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 59976139
Patellifolia procumbens, photographed by Andre Hosper
fig. d Andre Hosper, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 59905706
Patellifolia procumbens, photographed by Andre Hosper
fig. e Andre Hosper, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 59847349
Patellifolia procumbens, photographed by Tero Linjama
fig. f Tero Linjama, CC0 1.0 / obs. 102169107
Patellifolia procumbens, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. g Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 14392451
Patellifolia procumbens, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. h Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 14746765

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Patellifolia procumbens is native: Algeria, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Libya, Madeira, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Selvagens, Socotra, Somalia, Tunisia, Western Sahara, Baleares, Sicilia, Spain AlgeriaLibyaMaliMauritaniaMoroccoSelvagensSomaliaTunisiaWestern SaharaSiciliaSpain Canary Is.Cape VerdeMadeiraBaleares
Native distribution of Patellifolia procumbens, 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
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Canary Is. CNY
Cape Verde CVI
Libya LBY
Madeira MDR
Mali MLI
Mauritania MTN
Morocco MOR
Selvagens SEL
Socotra SOC
Somalia SOM
Tunisia TUN
Western Sahara WSA
Baleares BAL EUROPE
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA

Not drawn on the map: Socotra. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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 954 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 9.9 °C 15.6 °C 16.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 22.2 °C 23.8 °C 28.6 °C
Annual rainfall 139 mm 292 mm 584 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 2 mm 7 mm 20 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 954 research-grade observations of Patellifolia procumbens 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 22 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.

  • Beta diffusa Coss.
  • Beta hastata Desf.
  • Beta monodiana Maire
  • Beta patellaris Moq.
  • Beta patellaris f. campanulata Maire
  • Beta patellaris f. diffusa (Coss.) Maire
  • Beta patellaris f. luthereaui (Maire) Maire
  • Beta patellaris f. monodiana (Maire) Maire
  • Beta patellaris var. diffusa (Coss.) Maire
  • Beta patellaris var. luthereaui Maire
  • Beta patellaris var. monodiana (Maire) Maire
  • Beta procumbens C.Sm.
  • Beta procumbens Lange
  • Beta pumila Link
  • Beta sylvestris Webb & Berthel.
  • Beta webbiana Moq.
  • Patellaria cordata J.T.Williams, A.J.Scott & Ford-Lloyd
  • Patellaria procumbens (C.Sm. ex Hornem.) A.J.Scott, Ford-Lloyd & J.T.Williams
  • Patellaria webbiana (Moq.) J.T.Williams, A.J.Scott & Ford-Lloyd
  • Patellifolia patellaris (Moq.) A.J.Scott, Ford-Lloyd & J.T.Williams
  • Patellifolia webbiana (Moq.) A.J.Scott, Ford-Lloyd & J.T.Williams
  • Tetragonia pentandra Balf.f.

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. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol BEPA2. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.