Plant Wiki

The open plant encyclopedia

Know any plant.
Grow it well.

Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.

  • 13,000+plants with full pages
  • 365,000+plant species worldwide
  • 220+countries covered

Common in

See all

The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.

What do you want to do?

Popular plants

Browse all plants

See them in 3D

All plants in 3D

Browse plants

Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.

Plant Wiki › Browse plants

Fritillaria japonica

Fritillaria japonica
Photo: Alpsdake, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Liliaceae (Lily family)
Grows as
Bulb, Perennial
Native range
Japan (C. Honshu)
Climate
temperate

About

Fritillaria japonica (ミノコバイモ, minokobaimo) is a perennial herbaceous bulbous plant, endemic to Japan.

It is a species in the genus Fritillaria, in the family Liliaceae. It is placed in the subgenus Japonica.

Where it grows

Central and southwest Honshu, Japan. Found in peaty woodland soil.

Other Fritillaria plants

Fritillaria acmopetala · Checker lily · Stinkbells · Fritillaria alburyana · Fritillaria anhuiensis · Fritillaria assyriaca · Spotted fritillary · Chocolate lily · Chocolate lily · Greenhorn fritillary · Kamchatka fritillary · Fritillaria chitralensis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Fritillaria japonica by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

Point at a leaf or flower and snap. One plant in frame works best.

Your photo
Starting camera…