Tofieldia coccineaRichardson

northern asphodel

WFO wfo-0000748423 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Tofieldia coccinea, photographed by nina_nesterova
fig. a nina_nesterova, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-07-15 / obs. 144656582
Tofieldia coccinea, photographed by Rose Zappa
fig. b Rose Zappa, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 47284550
Tofieldia coccinea, photographed by Rose Zappa
fig. c Rose Zappa, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 23197762
Tofieldia coccinea, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. d Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 20896174
Tofieldia coccinea, photographed by Syd Cannings
fig. e Syd Cannings, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 21234946
Tofieldia coccinea, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. f Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 20876724
Tofieldia coccinea, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. g Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 4249029
Tofieldia coccinea, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. h Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 4210016

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Native range 27 botanical countries

Regions where Tofieldia coccinea is native: Amur, Buryatiya, China Southeast, Chita, Irkutsk, Japan, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kuril Is., Magadan, Manchuria, Mongolia, Primorye, Sakhalin, West Siberia, Yakutiya, East Himalaya, Alaska, Aleutian Is., British Columbia, Greenland, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Québec, Yukon AmurBuryatiyaChina SoutheastChitaIrkutskJapanKamchatkaKhabarovskKrasnoyarskMagadanManchuriaMongoliaPrimoryeSakhalinWest SiberiaYakutiyaEast HimalayaAlaskaBritish ColumbiaGreenlandNorthwest TerritoriesNunavutQuébecYukon Korea
Native distribution of Tofieldia coccinea, 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
Amur AMU ASIA-TEMPERATE
Buryatiya BRY
China Southeast CHS
Chita CTA
Irkutsk IRK
Japan JAP
Kamchatka KAM
Khabarovsk KHA
Korea KOR
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Kuril Is. KUR
Magadan MAG
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
Primorye PRM
Sakhalin SAK
West Siberia WSB
Yakutiya YAK
Alaska ASK NORTHERN AMERICA
Aleutian Is. ALU
British Columbia BRC
Greenland GNL
Northwest Territories NWT
Nunavut NUN
Québec QUE
Yukon YUK
East Himalaya EHM ASIA-TROPICAL

Not drawn on the map: Kuril Is., Aleutian Is.. 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 35 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.

  • Asphodeliris gracilis (Franch. & Sav.) Kuntze
  • Asphodeliris nutans (Willd. ex Schult. & Schult.f.) Kuntze
  • Asphodeliris sordida (Maxim.) Kuntze
  • Asphodeliris stenantha (Franch. & Sav.) Kuntze
  • Tofieldia akkana T.Shimizu
  • Tofieldia calyculata var. camtschatcensis Schult. & Schult.f.
  • Tofieldia coccinea f. fusca (Miyabe & Kudô) Q.S.Sun
  • Tofieldia coccinea f. pallescens H.Hara
  • Tofieldia coccinea f. rishiriensis (Miyabe & Kudô) Sugim.
  • Tofieldia coccinea var. fauriei T.Yamaz.
  • Tofieldia coccinea var. fusca (Miyabe & Kudô) H.Hara
  • Tofieldia coccinea var. major Hook.
  • Tofieldia fauriei H.Lév. & Vaniot
  • Tofieldia fusca Miyabe & Kudô
  • Tofieldia fusca f. rishiriensis Miyabe & Kudô
  • Tofieldia fusca var. kondoi (Miyabe & Kudô) Tatew.
  • Tofieldia gracilis Franch. & Sav.
  • Tofieldia kiusiana Okuyama
  • Tofieldia kiusiana var. geibiensis M.Kikuchi
  • Tofieldia kondoi Miyabe & Kudô
  • Tofieldia nutans Willd. ex Schult. & Schult.f.
  • Tofieldia nutans f. atroviolacea Krylov
  • Tofieldia nutans f. rufescens Tatew.
  • Tofieldia nutans var. fusca (Miyabe & Kudô) Koidz.

and 11 more.

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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