Semiaquilegia adoxoidesMakino

muskroot-like semiaquilegia

WFO wfo-0001130375 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Semiaquilegia adoxoides, photographed by WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁
fig. a WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-03-29 / obs. 118091452
Semiaquilegia adoxoides, photographed by WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁
fig. b WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 118091068
Semiaquilegia adoxoides, photographed by Wang.QG
fig. c Wang.QG, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 117620137
Semiaquilegia adoxoides, photographed by Yoshihiro Tokue
fig. d Yoshihiro Tokue, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 37783954
Semiaquilegia adoxoides, photographed by harum.koh
fig. e harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 14422166
Semiaquilegia adoxoides, photographed by harum.koh
fig. f harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 1642930
Semiaquilegia adoxoides, photographed by harum.koh
fig. g harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 1353927
Semiaquilegia adoxoides, photographed by 岸本年郎
fig. h 岸本年郎, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191325352

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Semiaquilegia adoxoides is native: China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Japan, Korea China North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastJapan Korea
Native distribution of Semiaquilegia adoxoides, 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 South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Japan JAP
Korea KOR

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.

  • Aquilegia adoxoides (DC.) Ohwi
  • Enemion leveilleanum (Nakai) Nakai
  • Isopyrum adoxoides DC.
  • Isopyrum capnoides Fisch. ex DC.
  • Isopyrum japonicum Siebold & Zucc.
  • Isopyrum leveilleanum Nakai
  • Isopyrum tuberosum H.Lév.
  • Semiaquilegia adoxoides var. grandis D.Q.Wang
  • Semiaquilegia dauciformis D.Q.Wang

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.

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