Hepatica asiaticaNakai

WFO wfo-0000719919 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Hepatica asiatica, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. a Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-09-04 / obs. 157743423
Hepatica asiatica, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. b Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 157743884
Hepatica asiatica, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. c Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 157743539
Hepatica asiatica, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. d Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 157726747
Hepatica asiatica, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. e Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 155658538
Hepatica asiatica, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. f Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 155646970
Hepatica asiatica, photographed by Eugene Popov
fig. g Eugene Popov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 92781970
Hepatica asiatica, photographed by Kim, Hyun-tae
fig. h Kim, Hyun-tae, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 33881333

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Hepatica asiatica is native: China North-Central, China Southeast, Korea, Manchuria, Primorye China North-CentralChina SoutheastManchuriaPrimorye Korea
Native distribution of Hepatica asiatica, 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
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 21 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.

  • Anemone hepatica f. magna M.Hiroe
  • Anemone hepatica f. nipponica (Nakai) Ohwi
  • Anemone hepatica var. asiatica (Nakai) H.Hara
  • Anemone hepatica var. japonica (Nakai) Ohwi
  • Anemone hepatica var. nipponica (Nakai) M.Hiroe
  • Anemone hepatica var. pubescens M.Hiroe
  • Hepatica asiatica f. acutiloba Nakai
  • Hepatica asiatica f. obtusiloba Nakai
  • Hepatica asiatica f. variegata Nakai
  • Hepatica asiatica var. yuseongii Y.N.Lee
  • Hepatica insularis Nakai
  • Hepatica nobilis f. hypopurpurea (Makino) Nakai
  • Hepatica nobilis f. japonica (Nakai) Yonek.
  • Hepatica nobilis f. lutea Kadota
  • Hepatica nobilis f. pubescens (M.Hiroe) Kadota
  • Hepatica nobilis f. variegata (Makino) Nakai
  • Hepatica nobilis f. zaoensis Ohno & S.Tsuru
  • Hepatica nobilis var. asiatica (Nakai) H.Hara
  • Hepatica nobilis var. japonica Nakai
  • Hepatica nobilis var. nipponica Nakai
  • Hepatica triloba f. variegata Makino

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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