Sphagnum truncatumHornsch.

WFO wfo-0001190343 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Sphagnum truncatum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. a Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-03-19 / obs. 191155421
Sphagnum truncatum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. b Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 175917824
Sphagnum truncatum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. c Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 165793130
Sphagnum truncatum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. d Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 109621899
Sphagnum truncatum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 110031664
Sphagnum truncatum, photographed by Chris Vynbos
fig. f Chris Vynbos, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 40885130
Sphagnum truncatum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. g Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15424654
Sphagnum truncatum, photographed by Danie Palm
fig. h Danie Palm, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180067109

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Where it actually grows measured, from 39 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 1.7 °C 6.7 °C 10.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 19.1 °C 25.5 °C 30.3 °C
Annual rainfall 363 mm 1,175 mm 2,432 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 23 mm 104 mm 244 mm

It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 39 research-grade observations of Sphagnum truncatum 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 16 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.

  • Sphagnum bordasii Besch.
  • Sphagnum convolutum Warnst.
  • Sphagnum coronatum Müll.Hal.
  • Sphagnum coronatum var. cuspidatum Rehmann
  • Sphagnum coronatum var. falcatum Müll.Hal. ex Warnst.
  • Sphagnum eschowense Warnst.
  • Sphagnum fluctuans Müll.Hal.
  • Sphagnum marginatum Schimp. ex Warnst.
  • Sphagnum marginatum var. convolutum (Warnst.) Warnst.
  • Sphagnum marginatum var. diversifolium Warnst.
  • Sphagnum mathieui Warnst.
  • Sphagnum mathieui var. subsquarrosum Warnst.
  • Sphagnum oligodon Rehmann ex Müll.Hal.
  • Sphagnum oligodon var. bachmannii Warnst.
  • Sphagnum oligodon var. beyrichii Warnst.
  • Sphagnum oxycladum Warnst.

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.

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. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.