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Valeriana phu L.

Turkey Valerian

Caprifoliaceae · Turkey

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Valeriana phu, photograph Rillke, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsValeriana phu, photograph C T Johansson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsValeriana phu, photograph Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia CommonsValeriana phu, photograph 阿橋 HQ, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons 5 photographs ›

Summary

Valeriana phu, the golden spikenard, is a species of flowering plant in the family Caprifoliaceae, native to northern Turkey. A rhizomatous geophytic perennial reaching 1 to 1.5 m (3 to 5 ft), it has a cultivar, 'Aurea', that is widely available from commercial suppliers.

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About the genus · Valeriana

Valeriana is a genus of flowering plants in the family Caprifoliaceae, members of which may be commonly known as valerians. It contains many species, including the garden valerian, Valeriana officinalis. Valeriana has centers of diversity in Eurasia and South America, and is represented by native species on all continents except Antarctica.

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Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

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.
NativeTurkey · introduced: Great Britain, Germany · 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“perennial or rhizomatous 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 60 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: Rillke, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; C T Johansson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons; 阿橋 HQ, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Valeriana 45 in the reference

Valeriana alliariifolia Valeriana alliariifolia Caprifoliaceae Photo: CC BY, Maria Kohanovskaya Valeriana amarella Caprifoliaceae Valeriana angustifolia Valeriana angustifolia Caprifoliaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, 阿橋 HQValeriana apula Valeriana apula Caprifoliaceae Photo: CC BY, Flavien SaboureauValeriana arizonica Valeriana arizonica Arizona tobaccoroot Photo: CC0, author not stated Valeriana calcitrapae Caprifoliaceae Valeriana californica Valeriana californica California valerian Photo: CC0, author not stated Valeriana carinata Caprifoliaceae Valeriana celtica Valeriana celtica Celtic Spikenard Photo: CC BY, Lukas ZanglValeriana clematitis Valeriana clematitis Caprifoliaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, julianazuluaga-carrero Valeriana cornucopiae Caprifoliaceae Valeriana coronata Caprifoliaceae all 46 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Valeriana hortensis; Valeriana laeta; Valeriana laevicaulis; Valeriana officinalis var. uliginosa; Valeriana phu var. major and 1 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Caprifoliaceae
Described by
L.
Native to
Turkey
Wild records
none in range · 60 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; 6 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (6 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no georeferenced record inside the range
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by its label; its IPNI identifier 860052-1 is Kew's for Valeriana phu L.
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
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 nothing to reportasked 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 21 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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