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Aconitum henryi E.Pritz.

Ranunculaceae · China South-Central, Inner Mongolia +2

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Aconitum henryi E.Pritz.: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, E.Pritz. ex Diels.

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Summary

Aconitum henryi is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family known by the common name Sparks variety monkshood.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Aconitum henryi", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Aconitum

Aconitum, also known as aconite, monkshood, wolfsbane, devil's helmet, or blue rocket, is a genus of over 250 species of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae. These herbaceous, frequently toxic perennial plants are chiefly native to the mountainous parts of the Northern Hemisphere in North America, Europe, and Asia, growing in the moisture-retentive but well-draining soils of mountain meadows.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Aconitum", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 128 of the 129 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central, Inner Mongolia, China North-Central, Qinghai · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker33.618, 106.921 · in the densest population, 77 records (60% of those in range)
Kew's description“temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 129 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 54 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 4 km away. 5 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 128 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 7277244 (Aconitum henryi E.Pritz.): Kew's file holds it as Aconitum henryi E.Pritz. (accepted); 1 record, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 2° block of the 129 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Rob Hille, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (3); Danny S., CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Aconitum 52 in the reference

Aconitum alboviolaceum Aconitum alboviolaceum Whitish-purple monk’shood Photo: CC BY, Dmitriy BochkovAconitum angustifolium Aconitum angustifolium Ranunculaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedAconitum anthora Aconitum anthora Yellow monkshood Photo: CC BY-SA, xulescu_gAconitum axilliflorum Aconitum axilliflorum Ranunculaceae Photo: CC BY, Repina TatyanaAconitum baicalense Aconitum baicalense Ranunculaceae Photo: CC BY, Urgamal MagsarAconitum barbatum Aconitum barbatum Yellow monk’shood Photo: CC BY, Иван Пристрем Aconitum brevicalcaratum Ranunculaceae Aconitum × cammarum Aconitum × cammarum Hybrid monkshood Photo: CC BY, Jon MortinAconitum carmichaelii Aconitum carmichaelii Carmichael's monkshood Photo: CC0, author not statedAconitum columbianum Aconitum columbianum Columbia monkshood Photo: CC0, author not stated Aconitum crassiflorum Ranunculaceae Aconitum decipiens Ranunculaceae all 53 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Aconitum henryi var. compositum; Aconitum henryi var. henryi; Aconitum henryi var. pilocarpum; Aconitum liouii; Aconitum shensiense and 2 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Ranunculaceae
Described by
E.Pritz.
Native to
China South-Central, Inner Mongolia, China North-Central +1
Wild records
129 in range · 54 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21GBIF's key 7787264 is Aconitum henryi E.Pritz. ex Diels; the page links Kew's Aconitum henryi E.Pritz., and the name is cited as Kew cites it
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredasked 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 1 record of GBIF's key 7277244, Aconitum henryi E.Pritz. (Kew's file holds it as Aconitum henryi E.Pritz. (accepted)): GBIF occurrence search API
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21found by its label; its IPNI identifier 707424-1 is Kew's for Aconitum henryi E.Pritz.
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 14 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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