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Fritillaria thunbergii Miq.

Zhejiang fritillary; Fritillary

Liliaceae · Kazakhstan, Xinjiang · listed by its genus as a bulb, tuber or caudex

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Summary

Fritillaria thunbergii is a flowering plant species in the lily family Liliaceae. It is native to Kazakhstan and in Xinjiang Province of western China, though cultivated in other places and naturalized in Japan and in other parts of China.

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About the genus · Fritillaria

Fritillaria (fritillaries) is a genus of spring flowering herbaceous bulbous perennial plants in the lily family (Liliaceae). The type species, Fritillaria meleagris, was first described in Europe in 1571, while other species from the Middle East and Asia were also introduced to Europe at that time. The genus has about 130–140 species divided among eight subgenera. More on Wikipedia ›

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Cultivation

Grouped as a bulb, tuber or caudex, listed under the genus Fritillaria in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “bulbous geophyte”.

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 Fritillaria in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “bulbous geophyte”. 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: No georeferenced record inside the range.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.
NativeKazakhstan, Xinjiang · introduced: China Southeast, Japan, Korea · 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“bulbous geophyte” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo georeferenced record lies inside the stated native range, and all 73 georeferenced records read lie outside it: the range and the records disagree. They are not used, and no map marker or climate is derived from them.

Photographs

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Photographs: author not stated, no rights reserved · CC0 (3); (c) りなべる, some rights reserved (CC BY); titanium22, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2).

Other Fritillaria 117 in the reference

Fritillaria acmopetala Fritillaria acmopetala Liliaceae Photo: CC BY, Ben CostamagnaFritillaria affinis Fritillaria affinis Checker lily Photo: CC BY-SA, Henry "Nick" RobertsonFritillaria agrestis Fritillaria agrestis Stinkbells Photo: CC0, author not statedFritillaria alburyana Fritillaria alburyana Liliaceae Photo: CC BY, Averater Fritillaria alfredae Liliaceae Fritillaria amana Fritillaria amana Liliaceae Photo: CC BY, Moustapha Itani Fritillaria anhuiensis Liliaceae Fritillaria ariana Liliaceae Fritillaria armena Liliaceae Fritillaria assyriaca Fritillaria assyriaca Liliaceae Photo: CC0, Dûrzan Fritillaria atrolineata Liliaceae Fritillaria atropurpurea Fritillaria atropurpurea Spotted fritillary Photo: CC BY, Whitney Brook Matson all 118 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Fritillaria austroanhuiensis; Fritillaria chekiangensis; Fritillaria collicola; Fritillaria thunbergii var. chekiangensis; Fritillaria thunbergii var. thunbergii and 3 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Liliaceae
Described by
Miq.
Native to
Kazakhstan, Xinjiang
Wild records
none in range · 73 outside it

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
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
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; 13 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (12 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no georeferenced record inside the range
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 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 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
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

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 16 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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