Peperomia serpensLoudon

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WFO wfo-0000479465 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Peperomia serpens, photographed by Zoltán Stekkelpak
fig. a Zoltán Stekkelpak, CC0 1.0 / 2021-11-21 / obs. 170341836
Peperomia serpens, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. b Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60876117
Peperomia serpens, photographed by Ileana Herrera
fig. c Ileana Herrera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 35591117
Peperomia serpens, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. d Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 14462960
Peperomia serpens, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. e Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 3078229
Peperomia serpens, photographed by Ben Keen
fig. f Ben Keen, CC0 1.0 / obs. 185563073
Peperomia serpens, photographed by Attila Oláh
fig. g Attila Oláh, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188343914
Peperomia serpens, photographed by fern Wildtruth
fig. h fern Wildtruth, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188000945

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Native range 26 botanical countries

Regions where Peperomia serpens is native: Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is. Mexico GulfMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaDominican RepublicEcuadorFrench GuianaGuyanaHaitiHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPanamáPeruPuerto RicoSurinameTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela Leeward Is.Venezuelan AntillesWindward Is.
Native distribution of Peperomia serpens, 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
Bolivia BOL SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Dominican Republic DOM
Ecuador ECU
French Guiana FRG
Guyana GUY
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Puerto Rico PUE
Suriname SUR
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN
Venezuelan Antilles VNA
Windward Is. WIN
Mexico Gulf MXG NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

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 236 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 16.4 °C 20.3 °C 22.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 26.0 °C 29.2 °C 32.5 °C
Annual rainfall 1,370 mm 2,990 mm 4,807 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 160 mm 316 mm 987 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 236 research-grade observations of Peperomia serpens 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 24 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.

  • Acrocarpidium guildingianum (Spreng.) Miq.
  • Acrocarpidium pulicare (Opiz) Miq.
  • Acrocarpidium repens (Kunth) Miq.
  • Acrocarpidium repens f. minus Miq.
  • Acrocarpidium scandens (Ruiz & Pav.) Miq.
  • Acrocarpidium serpens (Sw.) Miq.
  • Peperomia guildingiana (Spreng.) A.Dietr.
  • Peperomia ionophylla Griseb.
  • Peperomia myosurus Willd. ex A.Dietr.
  • Peperomia pulicaris Opiz
  • Peperomia reniformis Hook.
  • Peperomia repens Kunth
  • Peperomia scandens Ruiz & Pav.
  • Peperomia scandens var. fertilior C.DC.
  • Peperomia scandens var. longispica Trel.
  • Piper bracteatum J.V.Thomps.
  • Piper guildingianum Spreng.
  • Piper herbaceum Miq.
  • Piper myosuros Willd. ex D.Dietr.
  • Piper pulicare (Opiz) D.Dietr.
  • Piper repens Poir.
  • Piper scandens (Ruiz & Pav.) Vahl
  • Piper serpens Sw.
  • Verhuellia serpens (Sw.) Miq.

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. 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.