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Helichrysum cooperi Harv.

Drakensberg Yellow everlasting; Yellow everlasting

Asteraceae · Angola, Mozambique +6

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Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
-2.6°C
Record low -5.4 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
24°C
Jan and Feb at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
962mm
9 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
22–39DLI
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 April to September (October to March at the habitat), read as a summer growing season. rain rule, CHELSA
Northern hemisphere unless you set your site. The chart is in the habitat's months.

About the genus · Helichrysum

The genus Helichrysum consists of an estimated 600 species of flowering plants in the sunflower family (Asteraceae). The type species is Helichrysum orientale. They often go by the names everlasting, immortelle, and strawflower. More on Wikipedia ›

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

Cultivation

Seasons

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the median year's rain (739 mm of 930 mm) falls in October to March, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 17.5 °C against a yearly mean of 14.5 °C). Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: April to September.

Rain

930 mm in the median year at the habitat, 739 mm of it October to March. Wettest month January at 144 mm, driest month July at 15 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 724 mm to 1,183 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 962 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 930 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: 22 to 39 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 19, the highest 90th-percentile month 46).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is -2.6 °C, the absolute minimum -5.4 °C, 1,086 frost nights in 44 years, 24.7 a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 33.8 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 2.5 °C in July (across the grid cells of the range -1.7 °C to 10.9 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 23.9 °C in January (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: -2.6 °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: 51 to 64% 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 +344 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 Helichrysum cooperi through the yearWarmest months January and February, mean daily high 24 °C; coldest month July, mean nightly low 2.5 °C; 930 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°frost33.8° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER-5.4° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter050100150200250mm rainDLI 22–39RH 51–64%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 84 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 °C24 / 21–2724 / 21–2723 / 19–2621 / 17–2418 / 14–2316 / 12–2116 / 12–2118 / 14–2221 / 17–2321 / 18–2422 / 19–2523 / 20–26
Night °C14 / 11–2014 / 11–2012 / 9–1910 / 6–176 / 2–143 / -1–113 / -2–115 / 0–127 / 4–149 / 6–1511 / 8–1713 / 10–19
Rain mm144 / 114–223126 / 96–204107 / 82–15156 / 42–7023 / 16–3918 / 13–3415 / 9–3531 / 20–4848 / 28–7499 / 80–118125 / 95–141138 / 99–181
DLI39 / 35–4437 / 34–4132 / 30–3628 / 26–3124 / 22–2722 / 19–2523 / 21–2627 / 25–3132 / 29–3834 / 31–4137 / 34–4439 / 35–46
RH %64 / 58–6764 / 58–6763 / 58–6659 / 55–6454 / 51–5852 / 49–5551 / 48–5552 / 48–5856 / 49–6160 / 54–6562 / 56–6663 / 57–67
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 84 grid cells holding the 132 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 2451:4138 (-32.575, 26.925). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -5.4 °C, 1st-percentile night -2.6 °C, 99th-percentile day 33.8 °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 84 distinct grid cells holding 132 of the 132 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2451:4138 (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 -32.50_26.875, lapse-corrected +344 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 1392 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.
NativeAngola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Cape Provinces, Lesotho, KwaZulu-Natal, Free State, Northern Provinces · 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-29.125, 29.375 · in the densest population, 161 records (65% of those in range)
Kew's description“subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 247 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 132 of them placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 127 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 23 km away. 2 records outside the WCVP native range not used. 115 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 of the 247 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) Morten Ross, some rights reserved (CC BY) (6).

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

Helichrysum adenocarpum Helichrysum adenocarpum Pink Everlasting Photo: CC BY-SA, Tony RebeloZantedeschia albomaculata Zantedeschia albomaculata Spotted calla lily Photo: CC BY, Hildegard KleinDierama luteoalbidum Dierama luteoalbidum Iridaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, grabbargGladiolus longicollis Gladiolus longicollis Long Afrikaner Photo: CC BY, Sunčana BradleyCrassula vaginata Crassula vaginata White Stonecrop Photo: CC BY-SA, Tony RebeloAjuga ophrydis Ajuga ophrydis Bugle Plant Photo: CC BY-SA, Nicola van Berkel

Other Helichrysum 55 in the reference

Helichrysum adenocarpum Helichrysum adenocarpum Pink Everlasting Photo: CC BY-SA, Tony RebeloHelichrysum albobrunneum Helichrysum albobrunneum Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Morten RossHelichrysum amorginum Helichrysum amorginum Asteraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, KenraizHelichrysum appendiculatum Helichrysum appendiculatum Sheep'S-Ears Photo: CC BY-SA, Tony RebeloHelichrysum arenarium Helichrysum arenarium Sandy everlasting Photo: CC0, author not stated Helichrysum arenicola Strawflower Helichrysum argyrophyllum Helichrysum argyrophyllum Amatola Weed Photo: CC BY, Leon PerrieHelichrysum arwae Helichrysum arwae Asteraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Ghislain118 (AD)…Helichrysum aureum Helichrysum aureum Bright Yellow Everlasting Photo: CC0, author not statedHelichrysum auronitens Helichrysum auronitens Golden Everlasting Photo: CC0, Peter WarrenHelichrysum basalticum Helichrysum basalticum Asteraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Stan ShebsHelichrysum bellum Helichrysum bellum Asteraceae Photo: CC0, author not stated all 56 ›

Names & registers

GBIFPOWOIPNIWFOWikidataiNaturalist

The record

Family
Asteraceae
Described by
Harv.
Native to
Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe +5
Wild records
247 in range · 127 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; 2 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (2 at a botanic garden or arboretum; 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 -32.50_26.875, lapse-corrected +344 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 12 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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