Liriope graminifolia(L.) Baker

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WFO wfo-0000673390 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 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.

Liriope graminifolia, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. a Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-03-31 / obs. 67285612
Liriope graminifolia, photographed by mefisher
fig. b mefisher, CC0 1.0 / obs. 51801584
Liriope graminifolia, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. c Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 67285615
Liriope graminifolia, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. d Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 67285617
Liriope graminifolia, photographed by mefisher
fig. e mefisher, CC0 1.0 / obs. 51801577
Liriope graminifolia, photographed by Mark Richman
fig. f Mark Richman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 91165647
Liriope graminifolia, photographed by Mark Richman
fig. g Mark Richman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 91165662
Liriope graminifolia, photographed by Mark Richman
fig. h Mark Richman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 91165674

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Liriope graminifolia is native: China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Taiwan, Philippines China North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastTaiwanPhilippines
Native distribution of Liriope graminifolia, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
China North-Central CHN ASIA-TEMPERATE
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Taiwan TAI
Philippines PHI ASIA-TROPICAL

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 12 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.

  • Asparagus graminifolius L.
  • Convallaria spicata Thunb.
  • Dracaena graminifolia (L.) L.
  • Globeria autumnalis Raf.
  • Globeria spicata (Thunb.) Raf.
  • Liriope angustissima Ohwi
  • Liriope crassiuscula Ohwi
  • Liriope minor var. angustissima (Ohwi) S.S.Ying
  • Mondo graminifolium (L.) Koidz.
  • Ophiopogon graminifolius (L.) H.R.Wehrh.
  • Ophiopogon spicatus (Thunb.) Hook.
  • Slateria repens Siebold

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.