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Hylotelephium cauticola (Praeger) H.Ohba

Cliff stonecrop

Crassulaceae · Japan · listed by its family as a cactus or succulent

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Hylotelephium cauticola, photograph (c) Eleftherios Katsillis, some rights reserved (CC BY)Hylotelephium cauticola, photograph (c) Eleftherios Katsillis, some rights reserved (CC BY)Hylotelephium cauticola, photograph KENPEI, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHylotelephium cauticola, photograph Killerxcartoon, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsHylotelephium cauticola, photograph Hardyplants at English Wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsHylotelephium cauticola, photograph Jerzy Opioła, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 15 photographs ›
Habitat figuresfrom few records
Coldest month, mean nightly low
-5.4°C
Feb at the habitat, not a floor; extremes not used (sea cell) CHELSA
Warmest month, mean daily high
20°C
Aug at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
1,737mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
12–35DLI
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 November, read as a summer growing season. rain rule, CHELSA
Northern hemisphere unless you set your site. The chart is in the habitat's months.

From few records: 4 records in 4 grid cells. The records.

Summary

Hylotelephium cauticola, the cliff stonecrop, syn. Sedum cauticola, is a species of flowering plant in the family Crassulaceae, native to Hokkaido, Japan. Growing to 8 cm (3 in) tall by 30 cm (12 in) wide, it is a carpet-forming succulent perennial with trailing stems of pink-tinged grey-green round leaves, and purplish pink star-shaped flowers in autumn.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Hylotelephium cauticola", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Hylotelephium

Hylotelephium is a genus of flowering plants in the stonecrop family Crassulaceae. It includes about 33 species distributed in Asia, Europe, and North America.

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

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent, listed under the family Crassulaceae in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “semisucculent perennial”.

Seasons

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the median year's rain (1,334 mm of 1,743 mm) falls in May to November, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 12.6 °C against a yearly mean of 7.2 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: November to May.

Rain

1,743 mm in the median year at the habitat, 1,334 mm of it May to November. Wettest month September at 254 mm, driest month February at 46 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,626 mm to 1,843 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 1,737 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 1,743 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: 12 to 35 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 11, the highest 90th-percentile month 35).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low -5.4 °C in February (across the grid cells of the range -7.6 °C to -3.9 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 19.6 °C in August (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: none read. The nearest figure is -5.4 °C, the coldest month's mean nightly low, February, in the median year (CHELSA); a month's mean of its nightly lows is warmer than the nights a floor is read from. The daily extremes were read at a weather cell that is mostly sea and are not used.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 56 to 74% 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. CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. No cold floor is read without a daily extremes series; the coldest month's mean nightly low named in its sentence is not one. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

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

Group. Listed under the family Crassulaceae in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “semisucculent perennial”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

From few records: this habitat climate is read from 4 records in 4 grid cells; a page says so under 12 records or 5 cells, and shows the figures as read.

Habitat months, northern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Hylotelephium cauticola through the yearWarmest month August, mean daily high 20 °C; coldest month February, mean nightly low -5.4 °C; 1,743 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added). Medians across the range, from CHELSA. Habitat months, northern hemisphere.-10°-5°0°5°10°15°20°25°frost°C · day and nightcold quarter050100150200250300mm rainDLI 12–35RH 56–74%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 4 habitat cells, CHELSA cold quarter: the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C-1 / -2–0-1 / -2–-11 / 1–25 / 4–79 / 8–1213 / 12–1617 / 16–1920 / 19–2218 / 18–1914 / 13–158 / 8–92 / 2–3
Night °C-5 / -8–-4-5 / -8–-4-3 / -4–-12 / 1–26 / 6–610 / 10–1114 / 14–1517 / 17–1815 / 14–1610 / 9–114 / 3–5-2 / -4–-1
Rain mm69 / 63–7446 / 41–5090 / 80–94119 / 111–124175 / 167–188147 / 142–166200 / 190–215250 / 231–266254 / 225–273172 / 156–177136 / 129–14085 / 80–86
DLI14 / 14–1521 / 20–2128 / 28–2934 / 33–3435 / 35–3534 / 34–3530 / 30–3028 / 28–2825 / 24–2520 / 20–2114 / 14–1512 / 11–12
RH %57 / 56–5858 / 57–5960 / 59–6164 / 62–6567 / 64–6972 / 69–7474 / 71–7673 / 70–7466 / 65–6660 / 59–6157 / 56–5956 / 55–58

The daily extremes were read at a NASA POWER cell that is 28% land: neither it nor the next candidates whose coldest month's mean nightly low is within 2 °C of the median across cells sit in a POWER cell that is mostly land, and the rule reads a cold floor only from a cell that is mostly land, so none is read for this species. Nor is the coldest month's mean nightly low taken as one: it is a mean of a month's lows, not its coldest night. What that cell gave over 44 years: absolute minimum -11.7 °C, 1st-percentile night -7.7 °C, 99th-percentile day 22.4 °C.

How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 4 grid cells on land that hold in-range records (4 records in those cells; 4 more cells hold records but no land by the elevation layer, so those records sit at sea and the cells are left out), 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 958:6462 (42.075, 143.125). 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 4 distinct grid cells holding 4 of the 8 in-range records (4 further cells with records at sea, by the elevation layer, left out); extremes and elevation at the typical cell 958:6462 (its coldest month's mean nightly low nearest the median across cells, though its NASA POWER cell is only 28% land and none of the 2 next candidates within 2 °C of the median was mostly land); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 42.00_143.125, lapse-corrected +145 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 217 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.
NativeJapan · introduced: Germany · 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 marker42.1, 143.1 · in the densest population, 18 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“semisucculent perennial” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 18 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 4 of them in the land cells it reads, of 8 placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 11 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. 19 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the climate. 10 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 18 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) Eleftherios Katsillis, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); KENPEI, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Killerxcartoon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Hardyplants at English Wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Jerzy Opioła, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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

Arabis stelleri Arabis stelleri Coastal rockcress Photo: CC BY, りなべるHemerocallis yezoensis Hemerocallis yezoensis Asphodelaceae Photo: CC BY, Francisca WuSchizaea pusilla Schizaea pusilla Little curlygrass fern Photo: CC BY-SA, Chris HoessGaylussacia bigeloviana Gaylussacia bigeloviana Bog huckleberry Photo: CC BY, Frog The KermitPrimula modesta Primula modesta Primulaceae Photo: CC BY, Hector MonteroLeymus mollis Leymus mollis Sea lymegrass Photo: CC BY, John A Haskins

Other Hylotelephium 16 in the reference

Hylotelephium anacampseros Hylotelephium anacampseros Love-restoring Stonecrop Photo: CC BY, Antoine ThivolleHylotelephium cyaneum Hylotelephium cyaneum Azure Stonecrop Photo: CC BY, Oleg KosterinHylotelephium erythrostictum Hylotelephium erythrostictum Garden stonecrop Photo: CC0, author not statedHylotelephium ewersii Hylotelephium ewersii Pink Mongolian Stonecrop Photo: CC BY, Oleg KosterinHylotelephium maximum Hylotelephium maximum Crassulaceae Photo: CC BY, Екатерина ГущинаHylotelephium pallescens Hylotelephium pallescens Tall stonecrop Photo: CC BY, Святослав ВласенкоHylotelephium pluricaule Hylotelephium pluricaule Crassulaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, KENPEIHylotelephium populifolium Hylotelephium populifolium Cut-leaved orpine Photo: CC BY, Oleg KosterinHylotelephium sieboldii Hylotelephium sieboldii Crassulaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, DigigalosHylotelephium spectabile Hylotelephium spectabile Showy stonecrop Photo: CC BY, W RaoHylotelephium tatarinowii Hylotelephium tatarinowii Crassulaceae Photo: CC BY, Jane CharlenHylotelephium telephioides Hylotelephium telephioides Live-for-ever Photo: CC0, author not stated all 17 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Sedum cauticola; Sedum telephium f. cauticola. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Crassulaceae
Described by
(Praeger) H.Ohba
Native to
Japan
Wild records
18 in range · 11 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 42.00_143.125, lapse-corrected +145 m at 6.5 °C/km; read, and set aside: NASA POWER's cell is mostly sea (28% land), so no cold floor is shown
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 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
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 8 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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