Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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Native range 8 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Arizona | ARI | NORTHERN AMERICA |
| Mexico Central | MXC | |
| Mexico Gulf | MXG | |
| Mexico Northeast | MXE | |
| Mexico Northwest | MXN | |
| Mexico Southwest | MXS | |
| New Mexico | NWM | |
| Texas | TEX |
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 260 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -7.2 °C | -2.9 °C | 5.2 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 20.3 °C | 25.7 °C | 30.5 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 438 mm | 600 mm | 1,329 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 27 mm | 47 mm | 90 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 260 research-grade observations of Solanum stoloniferum 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 32 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.
- Solanum ajuscoense Bukasov ex Rybin
- Solanum ajuscoense Bukasov ex Rybin
- Solanum antipovichi Bukasov ex Rybin
- Solanum antipovichi var. antipovichi
- Solanum antipovichi var. neoantipoviczii (Bukasov) Hawkes
- Solanum antipoviczii Bukasov ex Rybin
- Solanum boreale (A.Gray) Bitter
- Solanum candelarianum Bukasov
- Solanum fendleri A.Gray
- Solanum fendleri subsp. arizonicum Hawkes
- Solanum fendleri subsp. fendleri
- Solanum fendleri var. fendleri
- Solanum fendleri var. texense Correll
- Solanum longipedicellatum Bitter
- Solanum longipedicellatum var. longimucronatum Hawkes
- Solanum longipedicellatum var. longipedicellatum
- Solanum longipedicellatum var. pseudoprophyllum Bitter
- Solanum malinchense Hawkes
- Solanum nannodes Correll
- Solanum neoantipoviczii Bukasov
- Solanum noctiflorum Hort.Dunal
- Solanum orbiculatibaccatum Lechn.
- Solanum papita Rydb.
- Solanum polytrichon Rydb.
and 8 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.
- USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol SOFE. public domain. 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.