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Actaea arizonica; photograph Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SAKrzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Actaea arizonica (S.Watson) J.Compton

Arizona bugbane

Ranunculaceae · Arizona

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Actaea arizonica (S.Watson) J.Compton: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, (S.Watson) Compton.

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Actaea arizonica, photograph Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsActaea arizonica, photograph Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 3 photographs ›

Summary

Actaea arizonica is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family known by the common name Arizona bugbane. It is endemic to Arizona in the United States, where it occurs in Coconino, Gila, and Yavapai Counties. Like some other species in genus Actaea, this plant was formerly included in the genus Cimicifuga.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Actaea arizonica", 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. 18 of the 19 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.
NativeArizona · 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 marker35.023, -111.827 · in the densest population, 19 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“perennial” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 19 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 5 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 6 km away. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 18 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.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 19 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: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2).

Other Actaea 17 in the reference

Actaea asiatica Actaea asiatica Asian baneberry Photo: CC BY, Jane CharlenActaea cimicifuga Actaea cimicifuga Chinese cimicifuga Photo: CC BY, Oleg KosterinActaea cordifolia Actaea cordifolia Ranunculaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, SalicynaActaea dahurica Actaea dahurica Dahurian bugbane Photo: CC BY, Tatyana PetrenkoActaea elata Actaea elata Tall bugbane Photo: CC BY, Cody HinchliffActaea erythrocarpa Actaea erythrocarpa Red baneberry Photo: CC BY, Sergey BasalaevActaea europaea Actaea europaea Ranunculaceae Photo: CC BY, Bobo-XActaea heracleifolia Actaea heracleifolia Komarov’s bugbane Photo: CC BY-SA, André Karwath aka AkaActaea japonica Actaea japonica Jejudo bugbane Photo: CC BY-SA, Qwert1234Actaea pachypoda Actaea pachypoda White baneberry Photo: CC0, author not statedActaea podocarpa Actaea podocarpa American bugbane Photo: CC BY, Alaina KrakowiakActaea racemosa Actaea racemosa Black snakeroot Photo: CC0, author not stated all 18 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Cimicifuga arizonica. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Ranunculaceae
Described by
(S.Watson) J.Compton
Native to
Arizona
Wild records
19 in range · 5 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 5616626 is Actaea arizonica (S.Watson) Compton; the page links Kew's Actaea arizonica (S.Watson) J.Compton, 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 answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
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 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
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 5 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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