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Filipendula
Filipendula is a genus of 12 species of perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the family Rosaceae, native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Well-known species include meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria) and dropwort (Filipendula vulgaris), both native to Europe, and queen-of-the-forest (Filipendula occidentalis) and queen-of-the-prairie (Filipendula rubra), native to North America.
14 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Meadowsweet
speciesFilipendula ulmaria
Dropwort
speciesFilipendula vulgaris
queen of the prairie
speciesFilipendula rubra
Siberian Meadowsweet
speciesFilipendula palmata
Giant Meadowsweet
speciesFilipendula camtschatica
Filipendula stepposa
speciesFilipendula stepposa
Filipendula kiraishiensis
speciesFilipendula kiraishiensis
Filipendula multijuga
speciesFilipendula multijuga
Filipendula glaberrima
speciesFilipendula glaberrima
Queen of the Forest
speciesFilipendula occidentalis
Himalayan Meadowsweet
speciesFilipendula vestita
Filipendula angustiloba
speciesFilipendula angustiloba
Red Meadowsweet
hybridFilipendula × purpurea
Filipendula formosa
speciesFilipendula formosa
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.555
History of Rare Plants
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.587
The Book of Health: The Art of Distillation
Brunschwig, Hieronymus · 1505 · p.136
Book of Herbs
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1546 · p.700
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.955
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.610
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.1037
A New Herbal, or History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens (trans. Henry Lyte) · 1578 · p.65
A New Herbal, or History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens (trans. Henry Lyte) · 1578 · p.66
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.76
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.76
Rariorum Plantarum Historia (with Fungorum Historia)
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.593
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 62021.