Corydalis heterocarpaSiebold & Zucc.

WFO wfo-0000622434 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Corydalis heterocarpa, photographed by Katja Schulz
fig. a Katja Schulz, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-04-25 / obs. 69342581
Corydalis heterocarpa, photographed by Katja Schulz
fig. b Katja Schulz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 69342696
Corydalis heterocarpa, photographed by Katja Schulz
fig. c Katja Schulz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 69342948
Corydalis heterocarpa, photographed by ch3chia
fig. d ch3chia, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 68830180
Corydalis heterocarpa, photographed by ch3chia
fig. e ch3chia, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 33822537
Corydalis heterocarpa, photographed by ch3chia
fig. f ch3chia, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 68830302
Corydalis heterocarpa, photographed by ch3chia
fig. g ch3chia, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 33822517

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Corydalis heterocarpa is native: China North-Central, China Southeast, Japan, Kazan-retto, Korea, Nansei-shoto, Ogasawara-shoto China North-CentralChina SoutheastJapan KoreaNansei-shoto
Native distribution of Corydalis heterocarpa, 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
China North-Central CHN ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Japan JAP
Kazan-retto KZN
Korea KOR
Nansei-shoto NNS
Ogasawara-shoto OGA

Not drawn on the map: Kazan-retto, Ogasawara-shoto. We hold no public-domain boundary for these regions, so they are 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.

Also published as 9 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.

  • Corydalis brachystyla Koidz.
  • Corydalis heterocarpa var. brachystyla (Koidz.) Ohwi
  • Corydalis heterocarpa var. simadae Ohwi
  • Corydalis hirtipes B.U.Oh & J.G.Kim
  • Corydalis oldhamii Koidz.
  • Corydalis pallida var. japonica (Franch. & Sav.) H.Boissieu
  • Corydalis pallida var. platycarpa Maxim. ex Palib.
  • Corydalis platycarpa (Maxim. ex Palib.) Makino
  • Corydalis wilfordii var. japonica Franch. & Sav.

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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