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Actaea cordifolia; photograph Salicyna, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SASalicyna, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Actaea cordifolia DC.

Ranunculaceae · Illinois, Indiana +4

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GBIF's records not checked. GBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked. So this page has no points on its map, no map marker, no habitat climate, no cultivation sheet and no species of nearest climate; the range is Kew's. Not a statement that none exist. How.

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Cultivation

Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the habitat climate is read only from them, so no sheet is derived.

Climate across the habitat

Not checked. GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the habitat climate is read only from them, so none is derived here. This is not a statement that no climate exists.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Records not checked: GBIF's records were not asked, as said under the name.
NativeIllinois, Indiana, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia · introduced: Pennsylvania · 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).
Kew's description“perennial” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedGBIF's records not checked, as said under the name: so there are no points on the map, no map marker and no climate across the range; the range is Kew's. Not a statement that no record exists.

Photographs

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Photographs: Salicyna, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (6).

Similar habitat climate Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the nearest habitat climates are read from the climate they give.

Other Actaea 17 in the reference

Actaea arizonica Actaea arizonica Arizona bugbane Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, KenraizActaea asiatica Actaea asiatica Asian baneberry Photo: CC BY, Jane CharlenActaea cimicifuga Actaea cimicifuga Chinese cimicifuga Photo: CC BY, Oleg KosterinActaea 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 rubifolia; Cimicifuga racemosa var. cordifolia; Thalictrodes cordifolia; Cimicifuga cordifolia; Actaea rubifolia. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Ranunculaceae
Described by
DC.
Native to
Illinois, Indiana, Alabama +3
Records
not checked · GBIF's records were not asked: the page has no GBIF key

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 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Actaea cordifolia DC. (plant_name_id 2620528), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
Habitat climate climate not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked, and the habitat climate is read only from them
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 316212-2, POWO 316212-2
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

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