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Astilbe grandis Stapf ex E.H.Wilson

Korean astilbe

Saxifragaceae · China South-Central, China North-Central +1 · listed by its genus as a temperate garden plant

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About the genus · Astilbe

Astilbe is a genus of 18 species of rhizomatous flowering plants within the family Saxifragaceae, native to mountain ravines and woodlands in Asia and North America. Some species are known by the common names false goat's beard and false spirea.

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

Cultivation

Grouped as a temperate garden plant, listed under the genus Astilbe in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “perennial”, “temperate”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the genus Astilbe in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “perennial”, “temperate”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

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. 189 of the 190 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, China North-Central, China Southeast · 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 marker31.05, 109.41 · in the densest population, 152 records (80% 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 190 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 88 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 327 km away. 132 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 189 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 inside the densest 4° block of the 190 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 Astilbe 11 in the reference

Astilbe biternata Astilbe biternata Appalachian false goat's-beard Photo: CC BY, Shelby Lyn Sanders Astilbe chinensis Saxifragaceae Astilbe glaberrima Saxifragaceae Astilbe japonica Astilbe japonica False buck's-beard Photo: CC BY-SA, Katryna RokickiAstilbe longicarpa Astilbe longicarpa Chinese Astilbe Photo: CC0, 葉子Astilbe macroflora Astilbe macroflora Largeleaf Astilbe Photo: CC BY, crothfelsAstilbe microphylla Astilbe microphylla Saxifragaceae Photo: CC BY, WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁Astilbe rivularis Astilbe rivularis Tall False-buck's-beard Photo: CC0, author not statedAstilbe rubra Astilbe rubra Tall False-buck's-beard Photo: CC BY, Takaaki HattoriAstilbe simplicifolia Astilbe simplicifolia Entire-leaf false goat’s beard Photo: CC BY-SA, KENPEIAstilbe thunbergii Astilbe thunbergii Thunberg's astilbe Photo: CC BY, Marco Mussita

Names & registers

Also known as Astilbe austrosinensis; Astilbe chinensis var. koreana; Astilbe chinensis var. paniculata; Astilbe leucantha. (GBIF Backbone)

Kew accepts as species of their own Astilbe koreana: older names in GBIF's record of this species that Kew's World Checklist accepts as other species. (WCVP, RBG Kew, file of 2026-06-04)

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The record

Family
Saxifragaceae
Described by
Stapf ex E.H.Wilson
Native to
China South-Central, China North-Central, China Southeast
Wild records
190 in range · 88 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 2026-10-21
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; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
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 nothing to reportasked 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 30 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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