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

Dwarf valerian

Valeriana montana

Also called Mountain valerian

Dwarf valerian
Photo: Syrio, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Caprifoliaceae (Honeysuckle family)
Grows as
Bulb
Native range
EC. Spain to E. Carpathians and S. Italy
Climate
temperate

About

Valeriana montana, the mountain valerian, is a species of flowering plant in the family Caprifoliaceae. Native to the mountains of Europe from east-central Spain, southern Italy, the Alps, the Balkans, and on to the eastern Carpathians, it is available from commercial suppliers.

Other Valeriana plants

Valeriana alypifolia · Valeriana aretioides · Arizona valerian · Valeriana asterothrix · Valeriana buxifolia · California valerian · Celtic Spikenard · Valeriana ceratophylla · Valeriana cernua · Valeriana coleophylla · Marsh valerian · Tobacco root

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Valeriana montana 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…