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Ophiopogon jaburan (Siebold) G.Lodd.

Lilyturf, White Lily-turf, Wild lilyturf, white lilyturf

Climate known 51 photographs
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About the genus · Ophiopogon

Ophiopogon (lilyturf) is a genus of evergreen perennial plants native to warm temperate to tropical East, Southeast, and South Asia. Despite their grasslike appearance, they are not closely related to the true grasses, the Poaceae. The name of the genus is derived from Greek ὄφις ophis, 'snake' and πώγων pogon, 'beard', most probably referring to its leaves and tufted growth. More on Wikipedia ›

The opening of Wikipedia, “Ophiopogon”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Asparagaceae
Described by
(Siebold) G.Lodd.
Native to
Japan, Korea, Nansei-shoto
Wild records
294 in range· 231 open

At a glance

Warmest month
28°C
Aug, mean day; nights 25 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
2046mm/yr
12 wet months · peak Jun 284 mm (CHELSA)
Light
15–34DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Rain rule: a summer growing season, April to October in the northern hemisphere (April to October at the habitat, northern). Habitat rain 2046 mm a year, wettest June at 284 mm, driest December at 61 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 15 to 34 mol/m²/day. Cold floor 1.8 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Convallaria japonica var. major Thunb.; Flueggea jaburan (Siebold) Kunth; Flueggea japonica var. major (Thunb.) Schult. & Schult.f.; Mondo jaburan (Siebold) L.H.Bailey; Mondo jaburan var. major (Thunb.) Nakai and 4 more.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: a summer growing season, April to October in the northern hemisphere (April to October at the habitat, northern).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the year's rain (1561 mm of 2046 mm) falls in April to October, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 21.3 °C against a yearly mean of 16.4 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: October to April.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 2046 mm a year, wettest June at 284 mm, driest December at 61 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

2046 mm a year at the habitat, 1561 mm of it April to October. Wettest month June at 284 mm, driest December at 61 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 1451 mm to 2908 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 15 to 34 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 15 to 34 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 14, the highest 90th-percentile month 41).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor 1.8 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is 1.8 °C, the absolute minimum -3.0 °C, 34 frost nights in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 28.4 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 4.3 °C in January (across the envelope cells 0.2 °C to 14.2 °C), warmest day 28.1 °C in August (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 1.8 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 55 to 69% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from 9 °C in Jan to 28 °C in Aug; mean night from 4 °C in Jan to 25 °C in Aug. The cold quarter, Dec to Feb, is the three months around the coldest night. 2046 mm of rain a year, most in Jun. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 229 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was -3.0 °C and the 99th-percentile day 28.4 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.-10°10°20°30°40°frost28.4° 99th-percentile day (undated)-3.0° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400500mm rainDLI 15–34RH 55–69 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 229 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C9 / 6–169 / 6–1712 / 10–1817 / 13–2121 / 17–2324 / 20–2627 / 24–2928 / 26–2926 / 23–2721 / 19–2516 / 13–2211 / 8–18
Night °C4 / 0–145 / 1–147 / 4–1612 / 9–1916 / 14–2119 / 18–2423 / 22–2725 / 23–2722 / 20–2617 / 14–2312 / 8–207 / 3–16
Rain mm71 / 37–13394 / 49–154152 / 80–235165 / 104–256183 / 123–288284 / 168–471272 / 161–375254 / 159–338239 / 183–346164 / 57–231107 / 55–16361 / 33–141
DLI16 / 14–1821 / 19–2327 / 25–2933 / 31–3534 / 33–3732 / 29–3633 / 31–4134 / 31–3828 / 25–3324 / 19–2618 / 16–1915 / 14–17
RH %55 / 53–5856 / 54–5958 / 56–6060 / 58–6263 / 61–6668 / 65–7169 / 66–7367 / 65–6963 / 62–6659 / 57–6257 / 55–6055 / 54–59

Each figure is the median across the 229 grid cells holding the 285 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 1119:6146 (34.025, 127.325). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -3.0 °C, 1st-percentile night 1.8 °C, 99th-percentile day 28.4 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 229 distinct grid cells holding the 285 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1119:6146 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 34.00_127.500, lapse-corrected +36 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 37 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeJapan, Korea, Nansei-shoto· introduced: Cook Is.
Kew's description“perennial” · “temperate”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker34.011, 126.341 · in the densest population, 148 records (50% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 294 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 231 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. 44 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 9 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 2° block of the 294 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: no rights reserved · CC0 (2); (c) Pieter Pelser, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Thomas Mesaglio, some rights reserved (CC BY) (5).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Ophiopogon jaburan, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Anthocyanin-Flavonol Co-pigmentation in Blue Seed Coats of Ophiopogon jaburan
Nariyuki Ishikura, Kunijiro Yoshitama (1984) · Journal of Plant Physiology
Steroidal sapogenins of sixteen liliaceae plants.
Tameto Okanishi, Akira Akahori, Fumio Yasuda, Yasuyoshi Takeuchi (1975) · Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin
First Report of Colletotrichum liriopes Causing Leaf Spots on Liriope spicata in China
Shi-Qiang Chen, XUE-LIANG HOU, Shuai Yang, Lingling Tan (2019) · Plant Disease
Kaempferol glycosides in the seed-coat of Ophiopogon jaburan (Kunth) Lodd.
Nariyuki Ishikura, Shunzô Hayashida (1979) · Agricultural and Biological Chemistry
Isolation of a new flavonol glycoside and its effects on the blue color of seed coats ofOphiopogon jaburan
Kunijiro Yoshitama, Tomoyuki Kawasoe, Nariyuki Ishikura (1993) · Journal of Plant Research
Tissue Culture Propagation of Liriope muscari and Ophiopogon jaburan
John J. Frett, Michael A. Dirr (1983) · HortScience
Kaempferol Glycosides in the Seed-Coat of Ophiopogon jaburan (Kunth) Lodd.
Nariyuki Ishikura, Shunzô Hayashida (1979) · Agricultural and Biological Chemistry
First Report of Anthracnose on Ophiopogon jaburan Caused by Colletotrichum liriopes in China
Run Hua Yi, Xiu Ping He, Dong Li, Miao Lian Xiang (2022) · Plant Disease
Fitorremediação por meio de plantas ornamentais para recuperação de áreas urbanas contaminadas com chumbo
Roberta Mertz Rodrigues (2016) · LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas)
PHARMACOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF ANTI-INFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY OF COMBINED EXTRACT OF OPHIOPOGON JABURAN AND PANDANUS AMARYLLIFOLIUS USING EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL MODEL
Shahinoor Habib*1, Priyanka Shrivastava2, Dr. Vishal Gupta3, Dr. Satish Kumar Sarankar4 (2026) · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

Other Ophiopogon 2 in the reference

History & registers

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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 66 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.