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Rhaponticum canariense DC.

Asteraceae · Canary Is.

English names not checked: Wikidata's common names were not read for this page.

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Habitat figuresfrom few records
Coldest month, mean nightly low
5.5°C
Jan at the habitat, not a floor; extremes not used (sea cell) CHELSA
Warmest month, mean daily high
24°C
Jul and Aug at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
456mm
7 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
17–50DLI
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 winters: the rain comes November to March, read as a winter growing season. rain rule, CHELSA
Northern hemisphere unless you set your site. The chart is in the habitat's months.

From few records: 3 records in 3 grid cells. The records.

Cultivation

Seasons

The rain rule reads a winter growing season: 70% of the median year's rain (350 mm of 457 mm) falls in November to March, cooler than the year (wet-season mean 8.7 °C against a yearly mean of 12.4 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: May to September.

Rain

457 mm in the median year at the habitat, 350 mm of it November to March. Wettest month December at 86 mm, driest month July at 2 mm; 2 months under 5 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 456 mm to 462 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 456 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 457 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: 17 to 50 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 16, the highest 90th-percentile month 51).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 5.5 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range 3.1 °C to 10.8 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 23.9 °C in July (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: none read. The nearest figure is 5.5 °C, the coldest month's mean nightly low, January, 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: 33 to 51% 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.

Climate across the habitat

From few records: this habitat climate is read from 3 records in 3 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 Rhaponticum canariense through the yearWarmest months July and August, mean daily high 24 °C; coldest month January, mean nightly low 5.5 °C; 457 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added). Medians across the range, from CHELSA. Habitat months, northern hemisphere.0°5°10°15°20°25°30°°C · day and nightcold quarter0255075100mm rainDLI 17–50RH 33–51%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 3 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 °C10 / 8–1411 / 9–1512 / 11–1613 / 11–1615 / 14–1719 / 19–2024 / 23–2424 / 23–2420 / 19–2216 / 15–2013 / 11–1711 / 9–16
Night °C6 / 3–116 / 3–117 / 5–117 / 5–129 / 7–1312 / 11–1517 / 16–1717 / 16–1814 / 12–1711 / 9–169 / 6–147 / 4–12
Rain mm63 / 63–6469 / 67–7159 / 58–5926 / 25–2610 / 9–114 / 4–52 / 2–361247 / 46–4873 / 72–7486 / 84–91
DLI19 / 18–2325 / 25–3034 / 33–3841 / 41–4447 / 46–4850 / 49–5149 / 48–5044 / 44–4637 / 36–4028 / 27–3220 / 20–2417 / 16–21
RH %48 / 42–5948 / 42–5946 / 40–5747 / 40–5945 / 38–5940 / 34–5733 / 30–5136 / 33–5345 / 40–5851 / 45–6151 / 45–6151 / 45–61

The daily extremes were read at a NASA POWER cell that is 24% 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 3.3 °C, 1st-percentile night 4.9 °C, 99th-percentile day 16.1 °C.

How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 3 grid cells holding the 3 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 1233:3268 (28.325, -16.575). 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 3 distinct grid cells holding 3 of the 3 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1233:3268 (its coldest month's mean nightly low nearest the median across cells, though its NASA POWER cell is only 24% land and none of the 0 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 28.50_-16.875, lapse-corrected +1559 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 1697 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.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.

This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the keys of the names Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 3142204 (Rhaponticum canariense DC., 9 records), 5402715 (Serratula canariensis (DC.) Sch.Bip., 0 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeCanary Is. · 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 marker28.35, -16.55 · in the densest population, 7 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“perennial” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 7 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 3 of them placed to within 10 km; none carries a licence permitting republication, so the map shows no points. 2 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map and the climate. 4 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 3142204 (Rhaponticum canariense DC.): Kew's file holds it as Rhaponticum canariense DC. (accepted); 9 records, from GBIF's download.Records also from GBIF's key 5402715 (Serratula canariensis (DC.) Sch.Bip.): Kew's file holds it as Serratula canariensis (DC.) Sch.Bip. (synonym under Rhaponticum canariense DC.); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.
How this section is made
The map marker: the centre of the tenth-degree cell nearest the middle (no openly licensed record lies in the population, so no record's coordinates are published) of the densest 1° population of the 7 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

Not checked. iNaturalist and GBIF media were skipped (not asked) when this page was built. Not a statement that none exist.

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

Helianthemum juliae Helianthemum juliae Cistaceae Photo: CC BY, Diego González DopicoArgyranthemum tenerifae Argyranthemum tenerifae Tenerife Daisy Photo: CC BY, Elizabete MarchanteDescurainia bourgaeana Descurainia bourgaeana Brassicaceae Photo: CC BY, Vítor JorgeNepeta teydea Nepeta teydea Canary Catmint Photo: CC BY, jeanjacquesgodon Erigeron calderae Asteraceae Cheirolophus teydis Cheirolophus teydis Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Elizabete Marchante

Other Rhaponticum 9 in the reference

Rhaponticum australe Rhaponticum australe Asteraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Don & Betty WoodRhaponticum carthamoides Rhaponticum carthamoides Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, DoronenkoRhaponticum centauroides Rhaponticum centauroides Asteraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Meneerke bloemRhaponticum coniferum Rhaponticum coniferum Asteraceae Photo: Public domain, Victor M. Vicente SelvasRhaponticum pulchrum Rhaponticum pulchrum Asteraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz Rhaponticum pygmaeum Asteraceae Rhaponticum repens Rhaponticum repens Asteraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Stan ShebsRhaponticum scariosum Rhaponticum scariosum Asteraceae Photo: Public domain, Phil41Rhaponticum uniflorum Rhaponticum uniflorum Asteraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Straybird726

Names & registers

Also known as Leuzea cynaroides; Stemmacantha cynaroides; Serratula canariensis; Leuzea conifera; Cnicus cynara and 1 more. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Asteraceae
Described by
DC.
Native to
Canary Is.
Wild records
7 in range · 0 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
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Rhaponticum canariense DC. (plant_name_id 3046821), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredasked 2026-10-22this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 9 records of GBIF's key 3142204, Rhaponticum canariense DC. (Kew's file holds it as Rhaponticum canariense DC. (accepted)): the GBIF download; 0 records of GBIF's key 5402715, Serratula canariensis (DC.) Sch.Bip. (Kew's file holds it as Serratula canariensis (DC.) Sch.Bip. (synonym under Rhaponticum canariense DC.)): GBIF occurrence search API
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-22
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 28.50_-16.875, lapse-corrected +1559 m at 6.5 °C/km; read, and set aside: NASA POWER's cell is mostly sea (24% land), so no cold floor is shown
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 241390-1, POWO 241390-1
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 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 4 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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