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Phedimus kamtschaticus (Fisch.) 't Hart

Kamchatka Stonecrop, Kamchatka Stonecrop (EN), Kamtschatka-Asienfetthenne (DE), kan cha jia fei cai

Climate known 62 photographs Cactus or succulent
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Summary

Phedimus kamtschaticus, the orange stonecrop, is a species of flowering plant in the family Crassulaceae. It is a low-growing herbaceous perennial native to eastern Russia, northeastern China, Korea, and Japan. The species is commonly grown as an ornamental plant, and has escaped cultivation in Europe and the US.

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About the genus · Phedimus

Phedimus is a genus of the succulent family Crassulaceae, with about 18 species, distributed in eastern Europe and Asia. The genus is described with two subgenera, but one of these is also recognized as a separate genus, Aizopsis. Phedimus kamtschaticus is widely grown as an ornamental ground cover and has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Text from Wikipedia, “Phedimus”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Crassulaceae
Described by
(Fisch.) 't Hart
Native to
Yakutskiya, Amur, Kamchatka +10
Wild records
509 in range· 330 open

At a glance

Warmest month
23°C
Aug, mean day; nights 16 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
1111mm/yr
12 wet months · peak Aug 180 mm (CHELSA)
Light
12–36DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Grouped as a cactus or succulent by Crassulaceae, which is usually but not always one kind of plant (archetype table). Rain rule: a summer growing season, April to September in the northern hemisphere (April to September at the habitat, northern). Habitat rain 1111 mm a year, wettest August at 180 mm, driest December at 33 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 12 to 36 mol/m²/day. Cold floor -18.3 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Aizopsis kamtschatica (Fisch.) Grulich; Aizopsis kurilensis (Vorosch.) S.B.Gontch.; Aizopsis takesimensis (Nakai) P.V.Heath; Aizopsis zokuriensis (Nakai) P.V.Heath; Phedimus takesimensis (Nakai) 't Hart and 18 more.

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent by Crassulaceae, which is usually but not always one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum; the cold floor is the habitat's alone, and no prose comes from the table.

Its year Rain rule: a summer growing season, April to September in the northern hemisphere (April to September at the habitat, northern).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the year's rain (811 mm of 1111 mm) falls in April to September, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 14.1 °C against a yearly mean of 7.1 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: October to March.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: 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 gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 1111 mm a year, wettest August at 180 mm, driest December at 33 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

1111 mm a year at the habitat, 811 mm of it April to September. Wettest month August at 180 mm, driest December at 33 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 513 mm to 1838 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 12 to 36 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 12 to 36 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 3, the highest 90th-percentile month 39).

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.

Warmth and air Cold floor -18.3 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is -18.3 °C, the absolute minimum -26.1 °C, about 186 frost nights a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 22.9 °C. Monthly means: coldest night -9.9 °C in January (across the envelope cells -23.3 °C to -3.5 °C), warmest day 23.0 °C in August (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: -18.3 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 58 to 67% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from -2 °C in Jan to 23 °C in Aug; mean night from -10 °C in Jan to 16 °C in Aug. The cold quarter, Dec to Feb, is the three months around the coldest night. 1111 mm of rain a year, most in Aug. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 310 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was -26.1 °C and the 99th-percentile day 22.9 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°frost22.9° 99th-percentile day (undated)-26.1° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400mm rainDLI 12–36RH 58–67 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 310 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C-2 / -18–4-2 / -16–61 / -11–108 / -4–1715 / 4–2219 / 9–2622 / 13–2823 / 14–2819 / 9–2413 / 0–197 / -10–121 / -16–7
Night °C-10 / -23–-4-9 / -22–-2-5 / -17–21 / -10–76 / -2–1311 / 5–1815 / 9–2216 / 8–2213 / 3–186 / -6–11-1 / -15–5-7 / -21–-1
Rain mm36 / 9–13039 / 10–9159 / 16–10176 / 22–113100 / 32–153117 / 50–194172 / 76–373180 / 92–347166 / 59–24074 / 39–18859 / 23–15433 / 11–132
DLI14 / 4–1920 / 10–2428 / 21–3034 / 31–3636 / 34–3935 / 33–3831 / 27–3428 / 24–3224 / 18–2820 / 11–2414 / 5–1912 / 3–17
RH %59 / 53–7259 / 53–6959 / 54–6659 / 53–6660 / 55–6763 / 57–7267 / 60–7466 / 61–7263 / 60–6759 / 56–6558 / 55–7058 / 53–73

Each figure is the median across the 310 grid cells holding the 424 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 741:6773 (52.925, 158.675). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -26.1 °C, 1st-percentile night -18.3 °C, 99th-percentile day 22.9 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 310 distinct grid cells holding the 424 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 741:6773 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 53.00_158.750, lapse-corrected -111 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 29 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 every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeYakutskiya, Amur, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Kuril Is., Magadan, Primorye, Sakhalin, Inner Mongolia, Manchuria, China North-Central, Japan, Korea· introduced: Great Britain, Ireland, Norway, Austria, Germany, Baltic States, New York
Kew's description“succulent perennial” · “temperate”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker35.845, 128.009 · in the densest population, 167 records (33% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 509 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 330 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 1440 km away. 904 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 85 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 4° block of the 509 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) georges3, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Илья Руденко, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); (c) Christoph Moning, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); no rights reserved · CC0 (2).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Phedimus kamtschaticus, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Pollinator visits increase with bloom amount but decline with building height on extensive green roofs
Shannon M. Underwood, Nicholas Sookhan, Keng‐Lou James Hung, J. Scott MacIvor (2025) · Insect Conservation and Diversity
The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Phedimus Kamtschaticus (Crassulaceae) in Korea
Hee-Seung Seo, Seung‐Chul Kim (2018) · Mitochondrial DNA Part B
A Comparison of Organic Matter Amendments for Use in Extensive Green Roof Substrates
Elizabeth Taussig Barton (2015) · University Libraries (University of Maryland)
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Biochar enhances methane uptake in engineered green roof substrate
Imrul Kayes, Md Abdul Halim, Wenxi Liao, Md. Rezaul Karim (2026) · Carbon Research
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

Other Phedimus 3 in the reference

History & registers

Where this page came from built 2026-09-20 · dossier v2 · node
gbif.species answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.synonyms answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.vernacular answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
wcvp.distribution answered
gbif.occurrences answeredGBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.3h4zam
climate answered
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gbif.media answered
openalex answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19; this build: skipped

Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 103 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.