Eight-petal Mountain-Avens
Dryas octopetala L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Little
- tall
- 10 cm
- wide
- 57 cm
Rosaceae
Also called Mountain Avens, Eightpetal mountain-avens
Formerly Dryadaea octopetala, Dryas babingtoniana, Dryas camschatica, Dryas caucasica, and 17 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- SubshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Greenland, Subarctic & Subalpine EurasiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from RHS and Perennials.com, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 10 cmRead from RHS and Perennials.com, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 10–10 cm; Perennials.com 7–10 cm
- Spread
- 41 cm to 74 cmRead from RHS and Perennials.com, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: RHS 0.5–1 m; Perennials.com 30–45 cm
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from Perennials.com, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Perennials.com and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Perennials.com white; Wikipedia cream, white
- Coldest it survives
- -32.8 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from RHS and Perennials.com, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: RHS -20 °C; Perennials.com -45.6 °C
Not known yet: climate, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- German
- Silberwurz, Weiße Silberwurz
- Finnish
- lapinvuokko, tunturilapinvuokko
- Polish
- Dębik ośmiopłatkowy
- French
- Dryade à huit pétales, Chênette
- Norwegian Bokmål
- reinrose
- Swedish
- fjällsippa
- Russian
- Дриада восьмилепестная, Куропаточья трава
- Italian
- Camedrio alpino
- Spanish
- té del Pirineo
- Czech
- dryádka osmiplátečná
- Portuguese
- Drias
- Japanese
- チョウノスケソウ(広義), チョウノスケソウ
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Perennials.com, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Dryas octopetala (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.