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Euryops lateriflorus (L.f.) Less. ex DC.

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Asteraceae · Cape Provinces, Namibia +1

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Euryops lateriflorus (L.f.) Less. ex DC.: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, (L.fil.) Less.

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Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
-2.5°C
Record low -5.4 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
29°C
Jan and Feb at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
359mm
10 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
19–53DLI
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
Rain spread: 70% of the median year's rain takes 8 months, so no short rainy season. rain rule, CHELSA
Northern hemisphere unless you set your site. The chart is in the habitat's months.

About the genus · Euryops

Euryops is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family. They are native mostly to rocky sites in southern Africa, with a few species in other parts of Africa and on the Arabian Peninsula. They produce daisy-like flowerheads from fern-like foliage. More on Wikipedia ›

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

Cultivation

Seasons

The rain rule reads no short rainy season: 70% of the median year's rain (258 mm of 357 mm) takes 8 months, March to August and November to December. Mean temperature moves 12.0 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: September to February and May to June.

Rain

357 mm in the median year at the habitat, 258 mm of it March to August and November to December. Wettest month April at 38 mm, driest month September at 22 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 234 mm to 517 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 359 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 357 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, southern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.

Light

Open sky over the habitat: 19 to 53 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 17, the highest 90th-percentile month 56).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is -2.5 °C, the absolute minimum -5.4 °C, 1,077 frost nights in 44 years, 24.5 a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 35.8 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 3.6 °C in July (across the grid cells of the range 1.4 °C to 5.8 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 28.6 °C in January and February (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: -2.5 °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: 52 to 54% 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 +644 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, southern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Euryops lateriflorus through the yearWarmest months January and February, mean daily high 29 °C; coldest month July, mean nightly low 3.6 °C; 357 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, southern hemisphere.-10°0°10°20°30°40°frost35.8° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER-5.4° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter0102030405060mm rainDLI 19–53RH 52–54%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 138 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 °C29 / 26–3029 / 26–3026 / 24–2823 / 20–2519 / 17–2216 / 13–1815 / 13–1817 / 15–1920 / 17–2223 / 20–2425 / 23–2727 / 25–29
Night °C14 / 12–1514 / 13–1613 / 11–1510 / 8–127 / 5–104 / 2–74 / 1–65 / 2–76 / 4–89 / 7–1011 / 9–1213 / 11–14
Rain mm26 / 7–4424 / 7–4137 / 15–5138 / 25–5332 / 16–4327 / 13–5431 / 10–5333 / 14–4722 / 12–3527 / 17–5130 / 13–5030 / 9–46
DLI52 / 49–5646 / 43–5039 / 35–4229 / 26–3222 / 20–2519 / 17–2121 / 19–2326 / 24–2934 / 31–3842 / 39–4650 / 46–5353 / 49–56
RH %53 / 46–5854 / 47–5954 / 47–5954 / 49–5752 / 49–5553 / 51–5552 / 50–5553 / 48–5653 / 47–5654 / 47–5853 / 47–5753 / 47–58
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 138 grid cells holding the 216 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 2406:3961 (-30.325, 18.075). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -5.4 °C, 1st-percentile night -2.5 °C, 99th-percentile day 35.8 °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 138 distinct grid cells holding 216 of the 216 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2406:3961 (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 -30.50_18.125, lapse-corrected +644 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 1303 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.
NativeCape Provinces, Namibia, Free State · 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 marker-33.375, 21.375 · in the densest population, 219 records (62% of those in range)
Kew's description“desert or dry shrubland” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 355 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 216 of them placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 174 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 13 km away. 139 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 8147608 (Euryops lateriflorus (L.f.) DC., 1837): Kew's file holds it as Euryops lateriflorus (L.f.) Less. ex DC. (accepted); 190 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 355 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) Nicola van Berkel, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (5); (c) Karen Eichholz, some rights reserved (CC BY).

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

Othonna osteospermoides Othonna osteospermoides Asteraceae Photo: CC0, author not statedGibbaeum gibbosum Gibbaeum gibbosum Ostrich-Toe Humpfig Photo: CC BY, YvettevWijkCotyledon cuneata Cotyledon cuneata Crassulaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Nicola van BerkelCrassula pageae Crassula pageae Crassulaceae Photo: CC BY, Mike MusgravePelargonium nanum Pelargonium nanum Geraniaceae Photo: CC BY, Matt BergerPelargonium abrotanifolium Pelargonium abrotanifolium Southernwood geranium Photo: CC BY-SA, Dave U

Other Euryops 12 in the reference

Euryops abrotanifolius Euryops abrotanifolius Laceleaf True-Eye Photo: CC BY-SA, James DeaconEuryops acraeus Euryops acraeus Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Alan MansonEuryops brevipapposus Euryops brevipapposus Rocky Resinbush Photo: CC BY-SA, Dave UEuryops chrysanthemoides Euryops chrysanthemoides Bull's eye Photo: CC BY, Thomas MesaglioEuryops decumbens Euryops decumbens Asteraceae Photo: CC0, author not statedEuryops linearis Euryops linearis De Hoop True-Eye Photo: CC BY, Adele SLEuryops linifolius Euryops linifolius Lineleaf True-Eye Photo: CC BY, Jared Zachary HermanEuryops pectinatus Euryops pectinatus Gray-leaf euryops Photo: CC BY-SA, Tony RebeloEuryops speciosissimus Euryops speciosissimus Clanwilliam daisy Photo: CC BY-SA, Tony RebeloEuryops tenuissimus Euryops tenuissimus Large Harpuis Photo: CC0, author not statedEuryops tysonii Euryops tysonii Mt Currie True-Eye Photo: CC BY, Morten RossEuryops virgineus Euryops virgineus Garden-Route True-Eye Photo: CC BY-SA, Tony Rebelo

Names & registers

Also known as Euryops pearsonii; Euryops subsessilis; Jacobaeastrum lateriflorum; Jacobaeastrum subsessile; Othonna lateriflora. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Asteraceae
Described by
(L.f.) Less. ex DC.
Native to
Cape Provinces, Namibia, Free State
Wild records
355 in range · 174 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 2026-10-22GBIF's key 5395042 is Euryops lateriflorus (L.fil.) Less.; the page links Kew's Euryops lateriflorus (L.f.) Less. ex DC., and the name is cited as Kew cites it
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 answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 190 records of GBIF's key 8147608, Euryops lateriflorus (L.f.) DC., 1837 (Kew's file holds it as Euryops lateriflorus (L.f.) Less. ex DC. (accepted)): GBIF occurrence search API; 3 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (2 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 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 -30.50_18.125, lapse-corrected +644 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 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 14 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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