Valeriana tripterisL.

three-leaved valerian

WFO wfo-0000426931 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Valeriana tripteris, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. a Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-02 / obs. 202771257
Valeriana tripteris, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. b Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202771606
Valeriana tripteris, photographed by Wolfgang Jauch
fig. c Wolfgang Jauch, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200992045
Valeriana tripteris, photographed by Thomas Koffel
fig. d Thomas Koffel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199769473
Valeriana tripteris, photographed by Attila Oláh
fig. e Attila Oláh, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197813777
Valeriana tripteris, photographed by Elias
fig. f Elias, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197916033
Valeriana tripteris, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. g Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197078235
Valeriana tripteris, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. h Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197077353

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Valeriana tripteris is native: Austria, Bulgaria, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine AustriaBulgariaCorseCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSpainSwitzerlandUkraine
Native distribution of Valeriana tripteris, 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
Austria AUT EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
Corse COR
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR

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 236 in flower of 258 examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Valeriana tripteris 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. 236 of 258 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 7 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.

  • Valeriana bijuga Simonk. ex Blocki
  • Valeriana dacica Porcius
  • Valeriana hoppii Rchb.
  • Valeriana intermedia Vahl
  • Valeriana tripteris subsp. tarraconensis (Pau) Devesa, J.López, F.M.Vázquez & R.Gonzalo
  • Valeriana tripteris var. carpatica Soó
  • Valeriana tripteris var. tarraconensis Pau

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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