Perideridia bolanderi (Bolander's yampah)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Perideridia bolanderi, photographed by Tim Messick — fig. a Tim Messick, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-28 / obs. 132982694

Perideridia bolanderi, photographed by Lena Struwe — fig. b Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 5531402

Perideridia bolanderi, photographed by Matt Berger — fig. c Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 132808594

Perideridia bolanderi, photographed by Quinn Campbell — fig. f Quinn Campbell, CC0 1.0 / obs. 73046649

Perideridia bolanderi, photographed by Lauren Pfund — fig. g Lauren Pfund, CC0 1.0 / obs. 27848540

Perideridia bolanderi, photographed by Matt Lavin — fig. h Matt Lavin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172838364

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Native distribution of Perideridia bolanderi, 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
California	CAL	NORTHERN AMERICA
Idaho	IDA
Nevada	NEV
Oregon	ORE
Utah	UTA
Washington	WAS
Wyoming	WYO

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 38 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	-14.5 °C	-7.9 °C	-4.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	22.9 °C	27.4 °C	31.3 °C
Annual rainfall	254 mm	568 mm	1,404 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	23 mm	47 mm	125 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 38 research-grade observations of Perideridia bolanderi 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 4 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.

Conopodium bolanderi Koso-Pol.
Eulophus bolanderi (A.Gray) J.M.Coult. & Rose
Eulophus bolanderi var. benignus Jeps.
Podosciadium bolanderi A.Gray

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.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
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.