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Raoulia rubra; photograph (c) Christopher Stephens, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) CC BY-SA(c) Christopher Stephens, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · observed growing wild · 2026-02-21

Raoulia rubra Buchanan

Asteraceae · New Zealand North

No habitat climate
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Summary

Raoulia rubra is a cushion plant belonging to the family Asteraceae and is found in the mountains of the southern North Island and the northern South Island of New Zealand. Its common name in English is scabweed, although it is also sometimes called vegetable sheep.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Raoulia rubra", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 149 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 149 of the 149 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeNew Zealand North · 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-40.882, 175.442 · in the densest population, 142 records (95% of those in range)
Kew's description“subshrub” · “subalpine or subarctic” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 149 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 110 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 1 km away. 17 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 149 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 149 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) Christopher Stephens, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA); (c) Michael Berardozzi, some rights reserved (CC BY) (5).

Other Raoulia 17 in the reference

Raoulia albosericea Raoulia albosericea Volcanic Plateau raoulia Photo: CC BY, Joe Dillon Raoulia apice-nigra Asteraceae Raoulia australis Raoulia australis Golden scabweed Photo: CC0, author not statedRaoulia bryoides Raoulia bryoides Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Cara-Lisa SchlootsRaoulia eximia Raoulia eximia Vegetable sheep Photo: CC BY, John BarklaRaoulia glabra Raoulia glabra Smooth Mat Daisy Photo: CC BY, Angus CampbellRaoulia grandiflora Raoulia grandiflora Large-flowered mat daisy Photo: CC BY, Cara-Lisa SchlootsRaoulia haastii Raoulia haastii Green vegetable sheep Photo: CC BY, Matt ScottRaoulia hectorii Raoulia hectorii Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Irisa HudsonRaoulia hookeri Raoulia hookeri Scabweed mat daisy Photo: CC BY, Michael BerardozziRaoulia mammillaris Raoulia mammillaris Vegetable sheep Photo: CC BY, Ian DickieRaoulia monroi Raoulia monroi Asteraceae Photo: CC0, author not stated all 18 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Psychrophyton rubrum. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Asteraceae
Described by
Buchanan
Native to
New Zealand North
Wild records
149 in range · 110 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
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22149 in-range records, none placed to within 10 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 5 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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