Peracarpa carnosa

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Peracarpa carnosa, photographed by harum.koh — fig. b harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 121535746

Peracarpa carnosa, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin — fig. c Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 89365742

Peracarpa carnosa, photographed by 葉子 — fig. d 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 73321470

Peracarpa carnosa, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi) — fig. h 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32622766

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Native range 18 botanical countries

Native distribution of Peracarpa carnosa, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
China South-Central	CHC	ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast	CHS
Japan	JAP
Kamchatka	KAM
Korea	KOR
Kuril Is.	KUR
Sakhalin	SAK
Taiwan	TAI
Tibet	CHT
Assam	ASS	ASIA-TROPICAL
East Himalaya	EHM
India	IND
Myanmar	MYA
Nepal	NEP
New Guinea	NWG
Philippines	PHI
Thailand	THA
West Himalaya	WHM

Not drawn on the map: Kuril Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is 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.

Flowering 79 in flower of 84 examined

88%

100%

67%

Proportion of examined Peracarpa carnosa in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	0	too few examined
Feb	2	4	too few examined
Mar	7	8	88%	53% to 98%
Apr	33	33	100%	90% to 100%
May	20	20	100%	84% to 100%
Jun	6	6	100%	61% to 100%
Jul	4	6	67%	30% to 90%
Aug	2	2	too few examined
Sep	0	0	too few examined
Oct	3	3	too few examined
Nov	2	2	too few examined
Dec	0	0	too few examined

Peak flowering in Apr. Each bar is the share of Peracarpa carnosa observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 79 of 84 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 11 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.

Campanula carnosa Wall.
Campanula circaeoides F.Schmidt ex Miq.
Campanula ovata (D.Don) Spreng.
Peracarpa carnosa f. macrantha Nakai ex H.Hara
Peracarpa carnosa var. circaeoides (F.Schmidt ex Miq.) Makino
Peracarpa carnosa var. formosana H.Hara
Peracarpa carnosa var. kiusiana H.Hara
Peracarpa carnosa var. pumila H.Hara
Peracarpa circaeoides (F.Schmidt ex Miq.) Feer
Peracarpa luzonica Rolfe
Wahlenbergia ovata D.Don

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
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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