Asarum sieboldiiMiq.

WFO wfo-0000550963 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Asarum sieboldii, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. a Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-08-26 / obs. 153297750
Asarum sieboldii, photographed by Repina Tatyana
fig. b Repina Tatyana, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126637762
Asarum sieboldii, photographed by Repina Tatyana
fig. c Repina Tatyana, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 75335941
Asarum sieboldii, photographed by Repina Tatyana
fig. d Repina Tatyana, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 42482273
Asarum sieboldii, photographed by Tatyana Petrenko
fig. e Tatyana Petrenko, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188674818
Asarum sieboldii, photographed by Viola Alekseeva
fig. f Viola Alekseeva, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197984062
Asarum sieboldii, photographed by Viola Alekseeva
fig. g Viola Alekseeva, CC0 1.0 / obs. 195278487
Asarum sieboldii, photographed by Tatyana Petrenko
fig. h Tatyana Petrenko, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 123589900

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Asarum sieboldii is native: Japan, Korea, Manchuria, Primorye JapanManchuriaPrimorye Korea
Native distribution of Asarum sieboldii, 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
Japan JAP ASIA-TEMPERATE
Korea KOR
Manchuria CHM
Primorye PRM

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.

Also published as 27 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.

  • Asarum dimidiatum F.Maek.
  • Asarum maculatum Nakai
  • Asarum maculatum f. non-maculatum (Y.N.Lee) M.Kim
  • Asarum maculatum f. viride Y.N.Lee
  • Asarum maculatum var. non-maculatum Y.N.Lee
  • Asarum sieboldii f. chungbuensis C.S.Yook & J.Kim
  • Asarum sieboldii f. cornutum (Y.N.Lee) M.Kim
  • Asarum sieboldii f. non-maculatum (Y.N.Lee) M.Kim
  • Asarum sieboldii f. sonunsanense (Y.N.Lee) M.Kim & S.So
  • Asarum sieboldii var. cornutum Y.N.Lee
  • Asarum sieboldii var. maculatum (Nakai) M.Kim & S.So
  • Asarum sieboldii var. seoulensis Nakai
  • Asarum sieboldii var. sonunsanense (Y.N.Lee) M.Kim & S.So
  • Asarum sieboldii var. versicolor Yamaki
  • Asarum sonunsanense Y.N.Lee
  • Asarum sonunsanense f. variegatum Y.N.Lee
  • Asarum sonunsanense f. viriluteolum Y.N.Lee
  • Asarum versicolor (Yamaki) Y.N.Lee
  • Asarum versicolor (Yamaki) M.Kim & S.So
  • Asarum versicolor f. non-versicolor (Y.N.Lee) M.Kim
  • Asarum versicolor var. non-versicolor Y.N.Lee
  • Asiasarum dimidiatum (F.Maek.) F.Maek.
  • Asiasarum koreanum J.G.Kim & C.S.Yook
  • Asiasarum maculatum (Nakai) F.Maek.

and 3 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. 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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