Plate 1 figs. a–f · 2 observations
This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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.
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 118 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -15.4 °C | -12.0 °C | -0.3 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 13.4 °C | 16.4 °C | 25.5 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 754 mm | 1,446 mm | 1,946 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 111 mm | 221 mm | 360 mm |
It is found where winters are severely cold. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 118 research-grade observations of Patzkea paniculata 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 52 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.
- Anthoxanthum paniculatum L.
- Festuca anthoxanthia Sm.
- Festuca aurea Lam.
- Festuca baetica (Hack.) K.Richt.
- Festuca baetica subsp. moleroi (Cebolla, Lozano & Rivas Ponce) Cebolla & Rivas Ponce
- Festuca bulbosa Delarbre
- Festuca caerulescens Boiss. ex Hack.
- Festuca compressa DC.
- Festuca consobrina Timb.-Lagr.
- Festuca ferruginea (Vest) Rchb.
- Festuca fibrosa Griseb.
- Festuca fleischeri Steud.
- Festuca fusca Vill.
- Festuca gigantea Krock.
- Festuca montis-celtici Delarbre
- Festuca paniculata (L.) Schinz & Thell.
- Festuca paniculata subsp. baetica (Hack.) Markgr.-Dann.
- Festuca paniculata subsp. baetica (Hack.) Emb. & Maire
- Festuca paniculata subsp. consobrina (Timb.-Lagr.) Markgr.-Dann.
- Festuca paniculata subsp. longiglumis (Litard.) Kerguélen
- Festuca paniculata subsp. macrostachys Llamas, Acedo, Penas & Pérez Morales
- Festuca paniculata subsp. moleroi (Cebolla, Lozano & Rivas Ponce) Rivas Mart., A.Asensi, Molero Mesa & F.Valle
- Festuca paniculata subsp. multispiculata Rivas Ponce & Cebolla
- Festuca paniculata subsp. paui Cebolla & Rivas Ponce
and 28 more.
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.
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.