Bupleurum scorzonerifoliumWilld.

WFO wfo-0000575797 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Bupleurum scorzonerifolium, photographed by Юлия
fig. a Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-08-14 / obs. 151446145
Bupleurum scorzonerifolium, photographed by Юлия
fig. b Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161267251
Bupleurum scorzonerifolium, photographed by Юлия
fig. c Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 156902100
Bupleurum scorzonerifolium, photographed by Юлия
fig. d Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152896435
Bupleurum scorzonerifolium, photographed by Юлия
fig. e Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152926988
Bupleurum scorzonerifolium, photographed by Юлия
fig. f Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 151194185
Bupleurum scorzonerifolium, photographed by Юлия
fig. g Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 151352201
Bupleurum scorzonerifolium, photographed by Egor Dyukarev
fig. h Egor Dyukarev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 147646021

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Native range 19 botanical countries

Regions where Bupleurum scorzonerifolium is native: Altay, Amur, Buryatiya, China North-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Japan, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Manchuria, Mongolia, Primorye, Qinghai, Sakhalin, Tuva, Yakutiya AltayAmurBuryatiyaChina North-CentralChina SoutheastChitaInner MongoliaIrkutskJapanKhabarovskKrasnoyarskManchuriaMongoliaPrimoryeQinghaiSakhalinTuvaYakutiya Korea
Native distribution of Bupleurum scorzonerifolium, 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
China North-Central CHN
China Southeast CHS
Chita CTA
Inner Mongolia CHI
Irkutsk IRK
Japan JAP
Khabarovsk KHA
Korea KOR
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
Primorye PRM
Qinghai CHQ
Sakhalin SAK
Tuva TVA
Yakutiya YAK

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 791 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -29.4 °C -25.7 °C -19.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 19.0 °C 24.0 °C 25.2 °C
Annual rainfall 247 mm 387 mm 623 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 8 mm 29 mm 47 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 791 research-grade observations of Bupleurum scorzonerifolium 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 16 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.

  • Bupleurum falcatum f. normale H.Wolff
  • Bupleurum falcatum f. obvallatum (Nakai) H.Hara
  • Bupleurum falcatum f. scorzonerifolium (Willd.) Regel
  • Bupleurum falcatum subf. latum H.Wolff
  • Bupleurum falcatum subf. longipedunculatum (H.Boissieu) H.Wolff
  • Bupleurum falcatum subsp. scorzonerifolium (Willd.) Koso-Pol.
  • Bupleurum falcatum var. komarovii Koso-Pol.
  • Bupleurum falcatum var. longipedunculatum H.Boissieu
  • Bupleurum falcatum var. scorzonerifolium (Willd.) Ledeb.
  • Bupleurum scorzonerifolium f. latum Nakai
  • Bupleurum scorzonerifolium f. longiradiatum R.H.Shan & Yin Li
  • Bupleurum scorzonerifolium f. pauciflorum R.H.Shan & Yin Li
  • Bupleurum scorzonerifolium f. scorzonerifolium
  • Bupleurum scorzonerifolium var. obvallatum Nakai
  • Bupleurum scorzonerifolium var. scorzonerifolium
  • Bupleurum sinensium Gand.

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.