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1. Climate

About climate mapping

To make searching practical, SilvaGrid groups the bioclimatic zones from the World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP) into five primary macro-climates:

Tropical: Equatorial and tropical zones defined by consistent year-round warmth. This encompasses the wet tropics, seasonally dry tropics, and cooler high-altitude montane tropics.
Subtropical: Warm transition zones between tropical and temperate regions, typically characterized by mild, largely frost-free winters. (Note: WCVP groups dry-summer Mediterranean climates within this broader biome).
Temperate: Mid-latitude climates defined by distinct seasonal shifts, including a true winter season where regular frosts and plant dormancy are expected.
Arid: Moisture-deficient climates—including true deserts and dry shrublands—where evaporation exceeds precipitation, requiring severe drought adaptations.
Cold: High-latitude subarctic or high-altitude subalpine climates defined by severe winters, prolonged freezing, and highly restricted growing seasons.

These categories describe a species' primary native environment and serve as a broad baseline for cultivation. While many plants can be successfully grown across multiple macroclimates—for example, some species mapped to the Tropical macroclimate can also be grown in temperate climates—others may have much narrower climatic requirements within their mapped macroclimate. Local factors such as frost hardiness, summer heat, rainfall and soil conditions should always be considered before planting.

2. Plant Types

About plant types

SilvaGrid Plant Types are practical horticultural and botanical groupings derived from WCVP life-form descriptions, taxonomy, or a combination of the two. Some correspond closely to established botanical groups, while others bring together plants with similar growth forms for practical discovery.

Trees: Woody plants with persistent above-ground stems, generally forming an elevated crown or canopy. Large herbaceous tree-like plants are excluded.
Shrubs: Woody or partly woody plants with a shrub or subshrub growth form, typically branching low rather than forming a single main trunk.
Climbers & Vines: Plants with a climbing growth habit, including herbaceous climbers and woody lianas that use other vegetation or structures for support.
Conifers: Gymnosperms from the major conifer families, including pines, cypresses, podocarps and their relatives, ranging from low shrubs to large trees.
Palms & Cycads: True palms from the Arecaceae family together with cycads. The two are not close botanical relatives, but are grouped here as a practical horticultural and landscape category.
Ferns: Vascular, spore-producing plants within the fern group, ranging from small ground-layer and epiphytic forms to large tree ferns.
Grasses, Sedges & Rushes: A practical group combining true grasses, sedges, rushes and restios. Bamboos are shown separately because of their distinctive growth form.
Bamboos: Members of the grass family, shown separately from other grasses because of their distinctive growth forms and horticultural use.
Herbaceous Perennials: Non-woody, multi-year plants, including evergreen tropical perennials and large herbaceous forms. Bulbs and other geophytes are shown separately.
Annuals & Biennials: Short-lived plants that complete their life cycle over one or two growing seasons.
Bulbs & Geophytes: Plants with underground storage organs such as bulbs, corms, tubers or rhizomes, allowing them to persist through seasonal dormancy.
Cacti & Succulents: Cacti and other succulent plants with fleshy or thickened tissues associated with water storage, spanning many unrelated botanical groups.
Aquatic & Pond Plants: Plants adapted to living in water or water-saturated soils, including submerged, floating and emergent forms.
Air Plants & Epiphytes: Epiphytic and lithophytic plants that grow on trees or rocks, including many plants commonly described as air plants.

3. Native range (WGSRPD)

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About WGSRPD mapping

SilvaGrid uses the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) to organise native plant distributions. WGSRPD is an international botanical standard maintained by Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) and is also used by the World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP).

Botanical geography: SilvaGrid uses WGSRPD continents, regions and "botanical countries". These provide consistent units for recording plant distributions, but they do not always correspond exactly to modern political countries.
Consistent distribution data: Using the same geographic framework as WCVP allows SilvaGrid to preserve and compare native-range information consistently across the global plant dataset.

WGSRPD is a system for recording plant distributions rather than a climate, habitat or site-suitability classification.

Genus Buddleja

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Originating in North America, South America, Africa, Temperate Asia, Tropical Asia, and the Pacific, the genus Buddleja, a member of the Scrophulariaceae family, is a group comprising 126 taxa. Members of this group are primarily associated with seasonally dry tropical, subtropical, and temperate regions. It features a mix of trees and shrubs.

Data Profile

Taxonomic Scale: 126 taxa (114 base species, 12 variants).
Centers of Diversity: South America (67), Temperate Asia (32), North America (26)
Primary Climates: Seasonally Dry Tropical (40), Temperate (28), Subtropical (26)
Dominant Forms: Shrubs (109), Trees (39)

126 taxa found

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Buddleja acuminata

Family: Scrophulariaceae

Tropical Shrubs Climbers & Vines

Buddleja × alata

Family: Scrophulariaceae

Temperate Shrubs

Buddleja albiflora

Family: Scrophulariaceae

Temperate Shrubs

Buddleja alternifolia

— Alternate Leaf Butterfly Bush, Alternate Leaved Butterfly Bush Family: Scrophulariaceae

Temperate Trees Shrubs

Buddleja americana

Family: Scrophulariaceae

Tropical Trees Shrubs

Buddleja anchoensis

Family: Scrophulariaceae

Tropical Shrubs

Buddleja angusticarpa

Family: Scrophulariaceae

Tropical Trees Shrubs

Buddleja araucana

Family: Scrophulariaceae

Temperate Shrubs

Buddleja aromatica

Family: Scrophulariaceae

Tropical Shrubs

Buddleja asiatica

— Dog Tail, Dogtail Family: Scrophulariaceae

Subtropical Tropical Trees Shrubs

Buddleja auriculata

— Weeping Sagewood Family: Scrophulariaceae

Subtropical Shrubs

Buddleja axillaris

Family: Scrophulariaceae

Tropical Shrubs

Buddleja bhutanica

Family: Scrophulariaceae

Buddleja blattaria

Family: Scrophulariaceae

Tropical Shrubs

Buddleja bordignonii

Family: Scrophulariaceae

Buddleja brachiata

Family: Scrophulariaceae

Tropical Shrubs Climbers & Vines

Buddleja brachystachya

Family: Scrophulariaceae

Subtropical Shrubs

Buddleja bullata

Family: Scrophulariaceae

Tropical Trees Shrubs

Buddleja candida

Family: Scrophulariaceae

Temperate Shrubs

Buddleja cardenasii

Family: Scrophulariaceae

Buddleja caryopteridifolia

Family: Scrophulariaceae

Temperate Shrubs

Buddleja cestriflora

Family: Scrophulariaceae

Tropical Shrubs

Buddleja chapalana

Family: Scrophulariaceae

Tropical Shrubs

Buddleja chenopodiifolia

Family: Scrophulariaceae

Subtropical Shrubs

Buddleja colvilei

Family: Scrophulariaceae

Temperate Shrubs

Buddleja cordata

Family: Scrophulariaceae

Buddleja cordata subsp. cordata

Family: Scrophulariaceae

Buddleja cordata subsp. ovandensis

Family: Scrophulariaceae

Buddleja cordata subsp. tomentella

Family: Scrophulariaceae

Tropical Shrubs

Buddleja cordobensis

Family: Scrophulariaceae

Temperate Shrubs

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