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Helleborus thibetanus; photograph (c) zhangshen, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) zhangshen, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2021-03-20

Helleborus thibetanus Franch.

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

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Summary

Helleborus thibetanus, the Tibetan hellebore, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, native to China, in S Gansu, NW Hubei, S Shaanxi and NW Sichuan.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Helleborus thibetanus", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Helleborus

Commonly known as hellebores, the Eurasian genus Helleborus consists of approximately 20 species of herbaceous or evergreen perennial flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae, within which it gave its name to the tribe of Helleboreae. Many hellebore species are poisonous.

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

Cultivation

Grouped as a temperate garden plant, listed under the genus Helleborus in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “perennial or rhizomatous geophyte”, “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 Helleborus in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “perennial or rhizomatous geophyte”, “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 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 53 of the 56 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 · 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 marker31.474, 103.211 · in the densest population, 39 records (70% of those in range)
Kew's description“perennial or rhizomatous geophyte” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 56 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 22 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 220 km away. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 53 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 2° block of the 56 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: (c) zhangshen, some rights reserved (CC BY) (6).

Other Helleborus 14 in the reference

Helleborus argutifolius Helleborus argutifolius Corsican Hellebore Photo: CC BY, R MitchellHelleborus atrorubens Helleborus atrorubens Ranunculaceae Photo: CC BY, sunoochi from Sapporo, Hokkaido, JapanHelleborus cyclophyllus Helleborus cyclophyllus Ranunculaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Peter BillinghurstHelleborus dumetorum Helleborus dumetorum Green-flowered hellebore Photo: CC BY, Dávid HorváthHelleborus foetidus Helleborus foetidus Stinking hellebore Photo: CC0, author not statedHelleborus lividus Helleborus lividus Majorcan Hellebore Photo: CC BY-SA, Colin MeurkHelleborus multifidus Helleborus multifidus Ranunculaceae Photo: CC0, Mirko UbovićHelleborus niger Helleborus niger Christmas-rose Photo: CC BY, Riccardo RivaHelleborus odorus Helleborus odorus Sweet-scented Hellebore Photo: CC BY, Dávid HorváthHelleborus orientalis Helleborus orientalis Lenten-rose Photo: CC BY, Анна МитрошенковаHelleborus purpurascens Helleborus purpurascens Purple-flowered Christmas Rose Photo: CC BY, Oleksandr ShynderHelleborus torquatus Helleborus torquatus Ranunculaceae Photo: CC BY, Manfred Kolbacher all 15 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Helleborus chinensis; Helleborus viridis var. thibetanus. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Ranunculaceae
Described by
Franch.
Native to
China South-Central, China North-Central
Wild records
56 in range · 22 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 2026-10-22
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
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
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 2026-10-22
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 11 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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