Bergenia

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Overview

Herbs perennial, forming large clumps. Rhizomes creeping, large, thick, scaly. Leaves all basal, ± persistent, simple, waxy, often leathery; petiole short, broad, sheathing at base; leaf blade thick, margin entire, crenate, or dentate. Infloresences cymose, bracteate. Flowers showy, large. Sepals 5. Petals 5, white, pink, red, or purple. Stamens 10. Carpels 2, basally connate; ovary 1/4 subsuperior, proximally 2-loculed with axile placentation and distally 1-loculed with marginal placentation; styles 2; ovules many. Fruit a capsule. Seeds numerous, dark brown, small.

Ten species: Asia; seven species (three endemic) in China.

At least two species (Bergenia crassifolia and B. pacumbis) are cultivated as ornamentals and for medicinal use, and they have been considerably hybridized. Bergenia is most closely related to Mukdenia and Oresitrophe; other close relatives are Astilboides, Darmera Voss, and Rodgersia.^[1]

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Taxonomy

The Genus Bergenia is further organized into finer groupings including:

• Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 183 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Genus Bergenia: B. schmidtii · B. 'Abendglocken' · B. 'Abendglut' · B. 'Admiral' · B. 'Apple Court White' · B. 'Appleblossom' (Pigsqueak) · B. 'Autumn Glory' (Autumn Glory Bergenia) · B. 'Autumn Magic' · B. 'Baby Doll' (Pigsqueak) · B. 'Bach' · B. 'Ballawley Guardsman' · B. 'Ballawley Red' · B. 'Ballawley' clonal · B. 'Ballawley' seed-raised · B. 'Beethoven' · B. 'Biedermeir' · B. 'Bizet' · B. 'Borodin' · B. 'Brahms' · B. 'Bressingham Beauty' · B. 'Bressingham Bountiful' · B. 'Bressingham Salmon' · B. 'Bressingham White' (Pigsqueak) · B. 'Britten' · B. 'Croesus' · B. 'David' · B. 'Delbees' · B. 'Distinction' · B. 'Edens Magic Giant' · B. 'Eric Smith' · B. 'Eric's Best' · B. 'Eroica' · B. 'Evening Glow' (Evening Glow Bergenia) · B. 'Frau Holle' · B. 'Glockenturm' · B. 'Hellen Dillon' · B. 'Herbstblute' · B. 'Jo Watanabe' · B. 'Lambrook' · B. 'Lunar Glow' · B. 'Magic Giant' · B. 'Margery Fish' · B. 'Morning Light' · B. 'Mozart' · B. 'Mrs Crawford' · B. 'Oeschberg' · B. 'Opal' · B. 'Overture' · B. 'Perfect' · B. 'Pink Dragonfly' (Narrow Elephant Ears) · B. 'Pinneberg' · B. 'Profusion' · B. 'Pugsley's Pink' · B. 'Pugsley's Purple' · B. 'Purple Queen' · B. 'Purpurglocken' · B. 'Purpurkonigin' · B. 'Red Beauty' · B. 'Reitheim' · B. 'Rosette' · B. 'Rosi Klose' · B. 'Rosi Ruffles' · B. 'Rotblum' · B. 'Ruby Elf' (Pigsqueak) · B. 'Schneekissen' · B. 'Silberlicht' · B. 'Silver Light' (Pigsqueak) · B. 'Simply Sweet' · B. 'Snowblush' · B. 'Solar Flare' · B. 'Summer Mountain' · B. 'Sunningdale' · B. 'Sunshade' · B. 'Walter Kienli' · B. 'White Dwarf' · B. 'Wintermaerchen' (Heartleaf Bergenia) · B. 'Winterzauber' · B. aff. purpurascens · B. afghanica · B. agavifolia · B. Ballawley hybrids · B. beesiana · B. biflora · B. bifolia · B. ciliata (Winter Bergenia) · B. ciliata 'Leichtlinii' · B. ciliata 'Patricia Furness' · B. ciliata 'Rosea' · B. ciliata 'Wilton' · B. ciliata 'Yellow Medley' · B. ciliata f. ciliata · B. ciliata f. ligulata · B. ciliata ficifolia · B. cordata · B. cordifolia (Heartleaf Bergenia) · B. cordifolia 'Alba' · B. cordifolia 'Baby Doll' (Baby Doll Bergenia) · B. cordifolia 'Bressingham Ruby' (Bressingham Ruby Heartleaf Bergenia) · B. cordifolia 'Eden's Dark Margin' (Eden's Dark Margin Bergenia) · B. cordifolia 'Eroica' (Heartleaf Bergenia) · B. cordifolia 'Evening Glow' · B. cordifolia 'Flore Pleno' · B. cordifolia 'Jelle' · B. cordifolia 'New Hybrid' · B. cordifolia 'Overture' · B. cordifolia 'Perfect' · B. cordifolia 'Purpurea' · B. cordifolia 'Red Beauty' · B. cordifolia 'Red Start' (Heartleaf Bergenia) · B. cordifolia 'Redstart' · B. cordifolia 'Rosa Schwester' · B. cordifolia 'Rosa Zeiten' · B. cordifolia 'Rose' · B. cordifolia 'Rotblum' (Heartleaf Bergenia) · B. cordifolia 'Tubby Andrews' (Heartleaf Bergenia) · B. cordifolia 'Winter Glow' (Heartleaf Bergenia) · B. cordifolia 'Winterglut' (Winter Glow Bergenia) · B. cordifolia (Haw.) Sternb. 'Margery Fish' · B. cordifolia (Haw.) Sternb. 'Sunningdale' · B. cordifolia (Haw.) Sternb. var. purpurea hort. · B. cordifolia hybrids · B. cordifolia perfect (Perfect Leatherleaf Bergenia) · B. coreana · B. crassifolia (Winter-Blooming Bergenia) · B. crassifolia 'Aureo-Marginata' · B. crassifolia 'Autumn Red' · B. crassifolia 'Orbicularis' · B. crassifolia 'Variegata' · B. crassifolia (L.) Fritsch var. crassifolia · B. crassifolia (L.) Fritsch var. pacifica (Kom) Nekr. · B. crassifolia var. pacifica · B. cyanea · B. delavayi · B. emeiensis (Bergenia) · B. emeiensis hybrid · B. emeiensis var. rubellina · B. fortunei · B. gorbunovii · B. himalaica · B. hissarica · B. hybrid · B. ligulata · B. ligulata (Wall.) Engl. var. ciliata Hook. · B. magasea · B. media · B. mexicana · B. milesii · B. mixed red clones · B. Morning Red · B. orbicularis · B. ornata · B. pacifica · B. pacumbis · B. purpurascens (Purple Bergenia) · B. purpurascens 'Ballawley' · B. purpurascens 'Irish Crimson' · B. purpurascens (Hook.f. & Thoms.) Engl. var. delavayi · B. purpurascens hybrid · B. purpurascens var. delavayi · B. purpurascens var. sessilis · B. purpurascens var. yunnanensis · B. schmidtii · B. scopulosa · B. Silverlight · B. siphilitica · B. smithii · B. spathulata · B. stracheyi (Bergenia) · B. stracheyi 'Alba' (Bergenia) · B. stracheyi (Hook.f. & Thomson) Engl. var. afghanica · B. stracheyi Alba Group · B. stracheyi red · B. thysanodes · B. tianquanensis · B. ugamica · B. var. Eroica (Pigsqueak) · B. white · B. × media · B. × schmidtii · B. × smithii · B. × spathulata · B. × spathulata 'Gambol' · B. yunnanensis

Bibliography

• Hwang Shu-mei, Wei Chao-fen, Lu Ling-ti, Ku Tsue-chih & Jin Shu-ying. 1995. Saxifragaceae (2) [Parnassioideae, Hydrangeoideae, Escallonioideae, Iteoideae, Ribesioideae]. In: Lu Ling-ti & Hwang Shu-mei, eds., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 35(1): 1-406.
• Pan Jin-tang. 1992. Saxifragaceae (1) [Penthoroideae, Saxifragoideae]. In: Pan Jin-tang, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 34(2): 1-309

Footnotes

1. Pan Jintang, Douglas E. Soltis "Bergenia". in Flora of China Vol. 8 Page 278. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.

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