Aegopodium alpestreLedeb.

WFO wfo-0000521560 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Aegopodium alpestre, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. a Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-08-23 / obs. 152899446
Aegopodium alpestre, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. b Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 54060275
Aegopodium alpestre, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. c Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 53980411
Aegopodium alpestre, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. d Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 53979940
Aegopodium alpestre, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. e Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 130043571
Aegopodium alpestre, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. f Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 130081844
Aegopodium alpestre, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. g Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 130661505
Aegopodium alpestre, photographed by Юлия
fig. h Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 137866680

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Native range 25 botanical countries

Regions where Aegopodium alpestre is native: Altay, Amur, Buryatiya, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Japan, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kuril Is., Magadan, Manchuria, Mongolia, Primorye, Sakhalin, Tadzhikistan, Tuva, Uzbekistan, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutiya, Pakistan, West Himalaya AltayAmurBuryatiyaChitaInner MongoliaIrkutskJapanKazakhstanKhabarovskKrasnoyarskMagadanManchuriaMongoliaPrimoryeSakhalinTadzhikistanTuvaUzbekistanWest SiberiaXinjiangYakutiyaPakistanWest Himalaya Korea
Native distribution of Aegopodium alpestre, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Amur AMU
Buryatiya BRY
Chita CTA
Inner Mongolia CHI
Irkutsk IRK
Japan JAP
Kazakhstan KAZ
Khabarovsk KHA
Korea KOR
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Kuril Is. KUR
Magadan MAG
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
Primorye PRM
Sakhalin SAK
Tadzhikistan TZK
Tuva TVA
Uzbekistan UZB
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX
Yakutiya YAK
Pakistan PAK ASIA-TROPICAL
West Himalaya WHM

Not drawn on the map: Kuril Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 559 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -29.7 °C -25.6 °C -15.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 15.9 °C 22.9 °C 24.3 °C
Annual rainfall 336 mm 483 mm 1,149 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 10 mm 34 mm 111 mm

It is found where winters are arctic. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 559 research-grade observations of Aegopodium alpestre that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 7 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.

  • Aegopodium alpestre f. alpestre
  • Aegopodium alpestre f. scabrum Kitag.
  • Aegopodium alpestre f. tenerum Hara
  • Aegopodium alpestre f. tenuisectum Kitag.
  • Aegopodium alpestre var. daucifolium Gorovoj
  • Aegopodium alpestre var. latilobum Popov
  • Carum alpestre Koso-Pol.

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. 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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.