Hanabusaya is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Campanulaceae, containing the single species Hanabusaya asiatica. It is endemic to Korea. It is known in English as diamond bluebell and in Korean as Geumgang Chorong (Korean: 금강초롱꽃),...
Seoraksan National Park (Korean: 설악산국립공원) is a national park in South Korea. It is listed by the South Korean government with UNESCO as a tentative World Heritage Site. Located on the east-central Korean Peninsula, the park includes the Dinosaur...
Gangwon Province (Korean: 강원도), officially Gangwon State (강원특별자치도; lit. 'Gangwon Special Self-Governing Province'), is a Special Self-Governing Province of South Korea. It is known as the largest and least densely populated subdivision of South...
The family Campanulaceae (also bellflower family), of the order Asterales, contains nearly 2400 species in 84 genera of herbaceous plants, shrubs, and rarely small trees, often with milky sap. Among them are several familiar garden plants belonging...
Natural monuments of North Korea is a natural monuments system that designates natural resources that are designated as significant to the North Korean government. A total of 469 natural monument entries have been designated from no.1 to no. 935.
Since the first printing of Carl Linnaeus's Species Plantarum in 1753, plants have been assigned one epithet or name for their species and one name for their genus, a grouping of related species. Thousands of plants have been named after people,...
The Eastern Asiatic region (also known as Oriasiaticum, Sino-Japanese region, East Asian region, Temperate Eastern region) is the richest floristic region within the Holarctic kingdom and situated in temperate East Asia. It has been recognized as a...
In September 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) listed 3654 endangered plant species. Of all evaluated plant species, 17% are listed as endangered. The IUCN also lists 99 subspecies and 101 varieties as endangered.