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Aster pekinensis (Hance) F.H.Chen

Asteraceae · Chita, Amur +8

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Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
-14.4°C
Record low -22.3 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
26°C
Jul and Aug at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
945mm
9 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
15–37DLI
Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA
The year in your months, northern hemisphere
  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
  7. Jul
  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec
Wet summers: the rain comes May to September, read as a summer growing season. rain rule, CHELSA
Northern hemisphere unless you set your site. The chart is in the habitat's months.

Cultivation

Seasons

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the median year's rain (783 mm of 1,004 mm) falls in May to September, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 20.4 °C against a yearly mean of 10.8 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: November to March.

Rain

1,004 mm in the median year at the habitat, 783 mm of it May to September. Wettest month July at 251 mm, driest month January at 16 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 607 mm to 1,697 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 945 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 1,004 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, northern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.

Light

Open sky over the habitat: 15 to 37 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 12, the highest 90th-percentile month 39).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is -14.4 °C, the absolute minimum -22.3 °C, 5,499 frost nights in 44 years, 125.0 a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 30.4 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low -9.8 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range -24.4 °C to -3.9 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 25.9 °C in August (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: -14.4 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 54 to 67% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Temperature. NASA POWER daily minima and maxima over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, lapse-corrected +155 m to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. The cold floor is the 1st-percentile night named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat months, northern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Aster pekinensis through the yearWarmest months July and August, mean daily high 26 °C; coldest month January, mean nightly low -9.8 °C; 1,004 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added). Medians across the range, from CHELSA; the extremes at the edge from NASA POWER. Habitat months, northern hemisphere.-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°frost30.4° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER-22.3° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400500mm rainDLI 15–37RH 54–67%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 44 habitat cells, CHELSA cold quarter: the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low extremes over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, from NASA POWER, marked at the edge, in no month DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C0 / -10–42 / -5–67 / 1–1214 / 9–1919 / 15–2423 / 19–2826 / 23–2926 / 22–2922 / 17–2517 / 11–209 / 1–133 / -8–6
Night °C-10 / -24–-4-7 / -21–-2-1 / -12–25 / -1–811 / 6–1416 / 11–1921 / 15–2221 / 15–2315 / 8–188 / 0–121 / -10–5-5 / -21–-1
Rain mm16 / 7–4917 / 10–5229 / 16–8151 / 29–9785 / 57–127119 / 77–195251 / 134–409211 / 120–363117 / 61–26249 / 34–10440 / 16–8219 / 9–39
DLI17 / 15–1823 / 21–2430 / 28–3135 / 33–3737 / 36–3936 / 35–3930 / 28–3329 / 27–3127 / 25–2924 / 21–2417 / 15–1815 / 12–16
RH %55 / 52–6255 / 53–5855 / 51–5654 / 50–5757 / 53–6161 / 56–6567 / 62–7166 / 62–6960 / 58–6457 / 55–5856 / 54–5755 / 53–62
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 44 grid cells holding the 47 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. A dash is a month one or more of those cells has no figure for in the grid (a variable CHELSA does not carry there), so no median is taken rather than one over fewer cells. Extremes and elevation were read at a typical spot in the range, cell 1050:6143 (37.475, 127.175). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -22.3 °C, 1st-percentile night -14.4 °C, 99th-percentile day 30.4 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Across the range: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 44 distinct grid cells holding 47 of the 47 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1050:6143 (its coldest month's mean nightly low nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 37.50_126.875, lapse-corrected +155 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 228 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across the cells of the in-range records placed well enough to read one, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the keys of the names Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 3090150 (Asteromoea pekinensis Hance, 0 records), 5386121 (Boltonia pekinensis (Hance) Hance, 0 records), 5386124 (Aster pekinensis (Hance) Kitag., 40 records), 7389187 (Aster pekinensis (Hance) Merr., 0 records), 7686563 (Aster pekinensis (Hance) F.H.Chen, 50 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeChita, Amur, Khabarovsk, Primorye, China South-Central, Inner Mongolia, Manchuria, China North-Central, China Southeast, Korea · introduced: Sweden · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker37.42, 126.945 · in the densest population, 53 records (65% of those in range)
Kew's description“perennial” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 82 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 47 of them placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 41 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 81 km away. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. 35 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 3090150 (Asteromoea pekinensis Hance): Kew's file holds it as Asteromoea pekinensis Hance (synonym under Aster pekinensis (Hance) F.H.Chen); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.Records also from GBIF's key 5386121 (Boltonia pekinensis (Hance) Hance): Kew's file holds it as Boltonia pekinensis (Hance) Hance (synonym under Aster pekinensis (Hance) F.H.Chen); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.Records also from GBIF's key 5386124 (Aster pekinensis (Hance) Kitag.): Kew's file holds it as Aster pekinensis (Hance) F.H.Chen (accepted); 40 records, from GBIF's download.Records also from GBIF's key 7389187 (Aster pekinensis (Hance) Merr.): Kew's file holds it as Aster pekinensis (Hance) F.H.Chen (accepted); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.Records also from GBIF's key 7686563 (Aster pekinensis (Hance) F.H.Chen): Kew's file holds it as Aster pekinensis (Hance) F.H.Chen (accepted); 50 records, from GBIF's download.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 2° block of the 82 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.

Saussurea japonica Saussurea japonica East Asian saussurea Photo: CC0, author not statedArtemisia argyi Artemisia argyi Chinese mugwort Photo: CC BY, Repina TatyanaInula japonica Inula japonica Oriental yellowhead Photo: CC BY, Young Jun LeeCorylus heterophylla Corylus heterophylla Siberian filbert Photo: CC BY, Tatyana PetrenkoAcer truncatum Acer truncatum Shantung maple Photo: CC BY, capacoscarPotentilla chinensis Potentilla chinensis Chinese cinquefoil Photo: CC BY, WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁

Other Aster 25 in the reference

Aster ageratoides Aster ageratoides Rough-surface aster Photo: CC0, author not statedAster alpinus Aster alpinus Alpine aster Photo: CC BY, Matt BergerAster altaicus Aster altaicus Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Nina FilippovaAster amellus Aster amellus European Michaelmas-daisy Photo: CC BY, Michael AndresekAster baccharoides Aster baccharoides Asteraceae Photo: CC0, author not statedAster bellidiastrum Aster bellidiastrum Asteraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Opioła JerzyAster glehnii Aster glehnii Asteraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Koichi OdaAster hispidus Aster hispidus Asteraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Imartin6Aster iinumae Aster iinumae Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, mami_t_tAster incisus Aster incisus Asteraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Kurt StüberAster koraiensis Aster koraiensis Korean aster Photo: CC BY, pavlaki1968Aster lautureanus Aster lautureanus Mountain aster Photo: CC BY, Elena_Sherehora all 26 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Aster holophyllus; Aster integrifolius; Boltonia integrifolia; Boltonia pekinensis; Kalimeris integrifolia and 2 more. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Asteraceae
Described by
(Hance) F.H.Chen
Native to
Chita, Amur, Khabarovsk +7
Wild records
82 in range · 41 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Aster pekinensis (Hance) F.H.Chen (plant_name_id 3099772), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredasked 2026-10-22this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 0 records of GBIF's key 3090150, Asteromoea pekinensis Hance (Kew's file holds it as Asteromoea pekinensis Hance (synonym under Aster pekinensis (Hance) F.H.Chen)): GBIF occurrence search API; 0 records of GBIF's key 5386121, Boltonia pekinensis (Hance) Hance (Kew's file holds it as Boltonia pekinensis (Hance) Hance (synonym under Aster pekinensis (Hance) F.H.Chen)): GBIF occurrence search API; 40 records of GBIF's key 5386124, Aster pekinensis (Hance) Kitag. (Kew's file holds it as Aster pekinensis (Hance) F.H.Chen (accepted)): the GBIF download; 0 records of GBIF's key 7389187, Aster pekinensis (Hance) Merr. (Kew's file holds it as Aster pekinensis (Hance) F.H.Chen (accepted)): GBIF occurrence search API; 50 records of GBIF's key 7686563, Aster pekinensis (Hance) F.H.Chen (Kew's file holds it as Aster pekinensis (Hance) F.H.Chen (accepted)): the GBIF download
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-22
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 37.50_126.875, lapse-corrected +155 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no item carries Kew's IPNI identifier 181969-1, POWO 181969-1
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 16 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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