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Eupatorium chinense L.

Asteraceae · China South-Central, Hainan +6

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Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
-7.9°C
Record low -13.6 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
27°C
Aug at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
1,661mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
15–36DLI
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 October, read as a summer growing season. rain rule, CHELSA
Northern hemisphere unless you set your site. The chart is in the habitat's months.

Summary

Eupatorium chinense is a plant species in the family Asteraceae. The exact boundaries of this species have been defined differently by different authors. King and Robinson's 1987 paper defines it broadly, to include Eupatorium japonicum, Eupatorium makinoi, some varieties of Eupatorium fortunei, and other plants sometimes considered to be separate species.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Eupatorium chinense", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Eupatorium

Eupatorium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, containing from 36 to 60 species depending on the classification system. Most are herbaceous perennials growing to 0.5–3 m (1.6–9.8 ft) tall. A few are shrubs. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Eupatorium", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Seasons

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the median year's rain (1,259 mm of 1,701 mm) falls in May to October, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 20.4 °C against a yearly mean of 13.0 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: November to April.

Rain

1,701 mm in the median year at the habitat, 1,259 mm of it May to October. Wettest month July at 314 mm, driest month December at 48 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,307 mm to 3,108 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 1,661 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 1,701 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 36 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 13, the highest 90th-percentile month 37).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is -7.9 °C, the absolute minimum -13.6 °C, 2,486 frost nights in 44 years, 56.5 a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 29.0 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low -3.3 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range -10.1 °C to 3.8 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 27.3 °C in August (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: -7.9 °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: 57 to 68% 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 +262 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 Eupatorium chinense through the yearWarmest month August, mean daily high 27 °C; coldest month January, mean nightly low -3.3 °C; 1,701 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.-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°frost29.0° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER-13.6° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400500mm rainDLI 15–36RH 57–68%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 386 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 °C4 / -1–95 / 0–1010 / 4–1316 / 11–1820 / 16–2223 / 19–2626 / 23–2827 / 23–2924 / 20–2618 / 14–2112 / 8–166 / 2–11
Night °C-3 / -10–4-2 / -8–51 / -4–77 / 2–1112 / 8–1516 / 12–1921 / 16–2321 / 17–2417 / 13–2111 / 7–165 / 0–11-1 / -6–6
Rain mm52 / 27–14857 / 30–15693 / 51–210113 / 75–239133 / 99–303195 / 137–431314 / 182–444286 / 170–399208 / 161–379123 / 50–21879 / 46–18348 / 22–165
DLI17 / 14–1922 / 20–2428 / 25–3034 / 31–3636 / 32–3734 / 29–3631 / 27–3431 / 28–3426 / 23–2824 / 19–2517 / 15–1915 / 13–18
RH %58 / 53–6557 / 54–6458 / 55–6259 / 54–6261 / 57–6465 / 60–6868 / 65–7167 / 64–6964 / 61–6759 / 57–6458 / 56–6458 / 54–64
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 386 grid cells holding the 489 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 1086:6187 (35.675, 129.375). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -13.6 °C, 1st-percentile night -7.9 °C, 99th-percentile day 29.0 °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 386 distinct grid cells holding 489 of the 489 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1086:6187 (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 35.50_129.375, lapse-corrected +262 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 329 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.
NativeChina South-Central, Hainan, China North-Central, China Southeast, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam · 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 marker35.76, 139.441 · in the densest population, 596 records (41% 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 1469 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 489 of them placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 961 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 6 km away. 12 records outside the WCVP native range not used. 980 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.
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 1469 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: (c) 鄭雪雲, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Jacy Chen, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) 沈玟伶(Wen-Ling Shen), some rights reserved (CC BY) (4).

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

Dianthus longicalyx Dianthus longicalyx Long-calyx pink Photo: CC BY, WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁Carpinus tschonoskii Carpinus tschonoskii Asian hornbeam Photo: CC BY, WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁Swertia japonica Swertia japonica East Asian swertia Photo: CC0, author not statedNeoshirakia japonica Neoshirakia japonica Tallow tree Photo: CC BY, Timur KalininskyBotrychium ternatum Botrychium ternatum Ophioglossaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Qwert1234Potamogeton octandrus Potamogeton octandrus Little pondweed Photo: CC BY, Lucas Christofides

Other Eupatorium 26 in the reference

Eupatorium album Eupatorium album White thoroughwort Photo: CC BY, carterEupatorium altissimum Eupatorium altissimum Tall thoroughwort Photo: CC0, author not statedEupatorium cannabinum Eupatorium cannabinum Hemp agrimony Photo: CC BY, Michael GrundnerEupatorium capillifolium Eupatorium capillifolium Dog-fennel Photo: CC0, author not statedEupatorium compositifolium Eupatorium compositifolium Yankeeweed Photo: CC BY, Athena PhilipsEupatorium formosanum Eupatorium formosanum Ground qalanis Photo: CC BY, 謝麗霦Eupatorium glehnii Eupatorium glehnii Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, W RaoEupatorium godfreyanum Eupatorium godfreyanum Godfrey's thoroughwort Photo: CC0, author not statedEupatorium hualienense Eupatorium hualienense Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, chiuluanEupatorium hyssopifolium Eupatorium hyssopifolium Hyssop-leaf thoroughwort Photo: CC0, author not statedEupatorium japonicum Eupatorium japonicum Fragrant eupatorium Photo: CC BY, WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁Eupatorium leptophyllum Eupatorium leptophyllum False fennel Photo: CC BY, Ian Talty all 27 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Eupatorium chinense subsp. chinense; Eupatorium chinense subsp. reevesii; Eupatorium chinense subsp. yuliense; Eupatorium chinense var. oppositifolium; Eupatorium clematideum and 26 more. (GBIF Backbone)

Kew accepts as species of their own Eupatorium squamosum: older names in GBIF's record of this species that Kew's World Checklist accepts as other species. (WCVP, RBG Kew, file of 2026-06-04)

Under another author Eupatorium album Thunb. is an older name of this species, not Eupatorium album, a species of the reference. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Asteraceae
Described by
L.
Native to
China South-Central, Hainan, China North-Central +5
Wild records
1469 in range · 961 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
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 30 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (19 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 11 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-22
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 35.50_129.375, lapse-corrected +262 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media 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 100 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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