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Buddleja albiflora Hemsl.

Scrophulariaceae · China South-Central, China North-Central +1

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Buddleja albiflora, photograph Bibi1980, CC BY-SA, via GBIFBuddleja albiflora, photograph auroreflorenceandre30, CC BY-SA, via GBIFBuddleja albiflora, photograph auroreflorenceandre30, CC BY-SA, via GBIFBuddleja albiflora, photograph Laurence DUMONT, CC BY-SA, via GBIFBuddleja albiflora, photograph michel.grosjean, CC BY-SA, via GBIFBuddleja albiflora, photograph Chérif-Jacques Allali, CC BY-SA, via GBIF 13 photographs ›

Summary

Buddleja albiflora is a deciduous shrub in the family Scrophulariaceae. It is native to the mountains of central China, where it grows on shrub-clad slopes at altitudes of between 1,000 and 2,000 m. Named rather carelessly by Hemsley, the species was discovered by Henry, and introduced to western cultivation by Wilson in 1900.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Buddleja albiflora", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Buddleja

Buddleja is a genus comprising over 140 species of flowering plants endemic to Asia, Africa, and the Americas. The generic name bestowed by Linnaeus posthumously honoured Adam Buddle (1662–1715), an English botanist and rector, at the suggestion of William Houstoun. Houstoun sent the first plants to become known to science as buddleja to England from the Caribbean about 15 years after Buddle's death. More on Wikipedia ›

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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. 203 of the 204 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 · introduced: France · 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 marker31.37, 109.62 · in the densest population, 142 records (70% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 204 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 61 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 49 km away. 24 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 203 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 204 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: Bibi1980, CC BY-SA, via GBIF; auroreflorenceandre30, CC BY-SA, via GBIF (2); Laurence DUMONT, CC BY-SA, via GBIF; michel.grosjean, CC BY-SA, via GBIF; Chérif-Jacques Allali, CC BY-SA, via GBIF.

Other Buddleja 37 in the reference

Buddleja alternifolia Buddleja alternifolia Alternate-leaved Butterfly-bush Photo: CC0, author not statedBuddleja americana Buddleja americana Scrophulariaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Matteo CassellaBuddleja asiatica Buddleja asiatica Dog tail Photo: CC0, author not statedBuddleja auriculata Buddleja auriculata Weeping Sagewood Photo: CC BY, Shaun SwanepoelBuddleja colvilei Buddleja colvilei Scrophulariaceae Photo: CC BY, Morten RossBuddleja cordata Buddleja cordata Scrophulariaceae Photo: CC BY, Carlos Muñoz-AmezcuaBuddleja coriacea Buddleja coriacea Scrophulariaceae Photo: CC BY, capacoscarBuddleja crispa Buddleja crispa Himalayan butterfly bush Photo: CC BY, Sagnik Dutta RoyBuddleja crotonoides Buddleja crotonoides Scrophulariaceae Photo: CC BY, Abraham Sánchez RomeroBuddleja curviflora Buddleja curviflora Scrophulariaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, 阿橋 HQBuddleja davidii Buddleja davidii Butterfly-bush Photo: CC BY, zebedeugalinhaBuddleja delavayi Buddleja delavayi Scrophulariaceae Photo: CC0, Ptelea all 38 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Buddleja albiflora var. geraldii; Buddleja albiflora var. giraldii; Buddleja albiflora var. hemsleyana; Buddleja giraldii; Buddleja hemsleyana. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Scrophulariaceae
Described by
Hemsl.
Native to
China South-Central, China North-Central, China Southeast
Wild records
204 in range · 61 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; 4 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (3 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a zoo; 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 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 answeredasked 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 21 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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