Perezia pedicularidifolia

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 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.

Perezia pedicularidifolia, photographed by Romi Galeota Lencina — fig. a Romi Galeota Lencina, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-12-15 / obs. 173224146

Perezia pedicularidifolia, photographed by Nicolas Olejnik — fig. b Nicolas Olejnik, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61435750

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.

Native range 3 botanical countries

Native distribution of Perezia pedicularidifolia, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Argentina South	AGS	SOUTHERN AMERICA
Chile Central	CLC
Chile South	CLS

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.

Flowering 49 in flower of 50 examined

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Proportion of examined Perezia pedicularidifolia in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	25	25	100%	87% to 100%
Feb	20	20	100%	84% to 100%
Mar	0	0	too few examined
Apr	0	0	too few examined
May	0	0	too few examined
Jun	0	0	too few examined
Jul	0	0	too few examined
Aug	0	0	too few examined
Sep	0	0	too few examined
Oct	0	0	too few examined
Nov	0	0	too few examined
Dec	4	5	80%	38% to 96%

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Perezia pedicularidifolia observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 49 of 50 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 9 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 97 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	-7.2 °C	-5.0 °C	-0.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	11.2 °C	15.9 °C	21.0 °C
Annual rainfall	1,740 mm	2,841 mm	5,030 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	149 mm	291 mm	564 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 97 research-grade observations of Perezia pedicularidifolia 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. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 15 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.

Clarionea comosa Phil.
Clarionea humilis Phil.
Clarionea laciniata Phil.
Clarionea parvifolia Phil.
Clarionea pedicularifolia DC.
Clarionea variabilis Phil.
Clarionea volckmannii Phil.
Homoianthus variabilis Phil.
Perezia laciniata Reiche
Perezia laciniata var. comosa Reiche
Perezia laciniata var. laciniata
Perezia pedicularidifolia var. humilis Reiche
Perezia pedicularidifolia var. parvifolia Reiche
Perezia pedicularidifolia var. pedicularidifolia
Perezia variabilis Reiche

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.