Adenophora liliifolia(L.) A.DC.

Lilyleaf Ladybells

WFO wfo-0000822669 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Adenophora liliifolia, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. a Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-04 / obs. 203319767
Adenophora liliifolia, photographed by Евгений Егорейченков
fig. b Евгений Егорейченков, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 151264698
Adenophora liliifolia, photographed by Евгений Егорейченков
fig. c Евгений Егорейченков, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 151266372
Adenophora liliifolia, photographed by Ксения Волянская
fig. d Ксения Волянская, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 144864082
Adenophora liliifolia, photographed by Нурхайдарова Татьяна
fig. e Нурхайдарова Татьяна, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 144868744
Adenophora liliifolia, photographed by Нурхайдарова Татьяна
fig. f Нурхайдарова Татьяна, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 144868888
Adenophora liliifolia, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. g Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 144453419
Adenophora liliifolia, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. h Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 144468135

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Native range 22 botanical countries

Regions where Adenophora liliifolia is native: Altay, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Mongolia, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, East European Russia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, South European Russia, Switzerland, Ukraine AltayKazakhstanKirgizstanKrasnoyarskMongoliaWest SiberiaXinjiangAustriaBaltic StatesBelarusCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaEast European RussiaGermanyHungaryItalyNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSouth European RussiaSwitzerlandUkraine
Native distribution of Adenophora liliifolia, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Austria AUT EUROPE
Baltic States BLT
Belarus BLR
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
East European Russia RUE
Germany GER
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Kazakhstan KAZ
Kirgizstan KGZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Mongolia MON
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 77 in flower of 108 examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Adenophora liliifolia observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 77 of 108 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 59 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Adenophora alpini Borbás
  • Adenophora communis Fisch.
  • Adenophora communis var. integerrima (Trautv.) Trautv.
  • Adenophora cordata Tausch
  • Adenophora fischeri (Schult.) G.Don
  • Adenophora intermedia (Schult.) Sweet
  • Adenophora liliifolia f. alba (Nakai ex T.Mori) W.Lee
  • Adenophora liliifolia f. infundibuliformis (A.DC.) Voss
  • Adenophora liliifolia f. stylosa (Lam.) Korsh.
  • Adenophora liliifolia f. villosula (Borbás) Hayek
  • Adenophora liliifolia var. alba Nakai ex T.Mori
  • Adenophora liliifolia var. angustata Nakai
  • Adenophora liliifolia var. infundibuliformis A.DC.
  • Adenophora liliifolia var. integerrima (Trautv.) Korsh.
  • Adenophora liliifolia var. pocsii Soó
  • Adenophora liliifolia var. spreta (Schult.) A.DC.
  • Adenophora liliifolia var. stylosa (Lam.) Hayek
  • Adenophora liliifolia var. stylosa (Lam.) Korsh.
  • Adenophora liliifolia var. suaveolens (Schrad. ex Hornem.) Steud.
  • Adenophora marsupiiflora var. pilosa Korsh.
  • Adenophora mikoi Borbás
  • Adenophora periplocifolia (Lam.) A.DC.
  • Adenophora perpallens Borbás
  • Adenophora polymorpha Ledeb.

and 35 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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