See other conspecific taxa:

• Valeriana officinalis subsp. officinalis (0 accessions)
• Valeriana officinalis subsp. sambucifolia (0 accessions)
• Valeriana officinalis subsp. tenuifolia (0 accessions)

Common names:

• common valerian  (Source: Hortus 3) - English
• garden-heliotrope  (Source: Hortus 3) - English
• valerian  (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2) - English
• common valerian  (Source: ICAW) - English (Canada)
• valériane officinale  (Source: Zander Ency) - French
• valériane officinale  (Source: ICAW) - French (Canada)
• echter Arznei-Baldrian  (Source: Zander Ency) - German
• läkevänderot  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish
• xie cao  (Source: F China) - Transcribed Chinese
• valeriana lekarstvennaâ  (Source: F Baltic) - Transliterated Russian

Economic Importance:

• Food additives: flavoring
• Materials:
• Medicines: source of valepotriates; source of valepotriates; source of valepotriates

Distributional Range:

Native

Asia-Temperate

• WESTERN ASIA: Iran, Turkey
• CAUCASUS: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation, [Dagestan] Russian Federation-Ciscaucasia [Ciscaucasia]
• SIBERIA: Russian Federation-Eastern Siberia, [Eastern Siberia] Russian Federation-Western Siberia [Western Siberia]
• RUSSIAN FAR EAST: Russian Federation [Kurile Islands (s.), Primorye, Sakhalin]
• CHINA: China (n.)
• EASTERN ASIA: Japan, [Hokkaidô, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku] Korea, Taiwan

Europe

• NORTHERN EUROPE: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom
• MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland
• EASTERN EUROPE: Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russian Federation-European part, [European part (incl. arctic region)] Ukraine (incl. Krym)
• SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Bulgaria, Former Yugoslavia, Greece, Italy, Romania
• SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: France, Portugal, Spain


Naturalized (natzd. elsewhere)

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Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
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