Native to China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Japan, Korea, Kuril Is., Nansei-shoto, Sakhalin; introduced into Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Føroyar, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hawaii, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Vermont, Vietnam (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.

Distribution

Distribution from Plants of the World Online (POWO). View the accepted name on POWO

Occurrences

Not collected

May 26, 2016

Location

Japan, Honshu, Niigata

36.848667, 138.137194

Location Remarks

Myoko-Togakushi Renzan National Park. Suginosawa. Road 280 (on Google Maps) east to parking for trail to Naena-taki (waterfall). 785 m elev.

Collectors

David E. Boufford, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asterales

Family

Asteraceae

Genus

Petasites

Specific Epithet

japonicus

Authorship

(Siebold & Zucc.) Maxim.

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIF WFO POWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 3.7

Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.

Threat status

Predicted not threatened

Modelled estimate

EDGE score

0.4

Global rank

#128,719 of 335,497

Top 39%

Extinction probability

11%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →