Rhamnus pumilaTurra

WFO wfo-0000460078 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Rhamnus pumila, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. a Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-02 / obs. 202773351
Rhamnus pumila, photographed by Philipp
fig. b Philipp, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200946075
Rhamnus pumila, photographed by Rafael Medina
fig. c Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150058922
Rhamnus pumila, photographed by Rafael Medina
fig. d Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 149649695
Rhamnus pumila, photographed by Santiago Martín-Bravo
fig. e Santiago Martín-Bravo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 149496718
Rhamnus pumila, photographed by agujaceratops
fig. f agujaceratops, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 142597833
Rhamnus pumila, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. g Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 138337365
Rhamnus pumila, photographed by Andrea Mologni
fig. h Andrea Mologni, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 138507942

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 136558
Filed as
Rhamnus pumila Turra
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
-. Bordère 1870-06
Origin
FR
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Rhamnus pumila is native: Morocco, Albania, Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Sardegna, Spain, Switzerland MoroccoAlbaniaAustriaFranceGermanyGreeceItalyNW. Balkan Pen.SpainSwitzerland Sardegna
Native distribution of Rhamnus pumila, 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
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
France FRA
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Sardegna SAR
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI
Morocco MOR AFRICA

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 582 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -15.1 °C -9.2 °C -0.2 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 14.1 °C 17.7 °C 27.8 °C
Annual rainfall 576 mm 1,462 mm 2,299 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 77 mm 239 mm 427 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 582 research-grade observations of Rhamnus pumila 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 13 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.

  • Alaternus pumilus Raf.
  • Atadinus pumilus (Turra) Hauenschild
  • Atulandra valentina Raf.
  • Frangula rotundifolia Mill.
  • Oreoherzogia pumila (Turra) W.Vent
  • Rhamnus alpina var. valentina (Willd.) O.Bolòs & Vigo
  • Rhamnus globulariifolia Arv.-Touv.
  • Rhamnus neapolitana (DC.) Link
  • Rhamnus pusilla Ten.
  • Rhamnus repens Page
  • Rhamnus subsempervirens hort. ex K.Koch
  • Rhamnus valentina Willd.
  • Rhamnus villarsii Link

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. 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.