Tricyrtis chinensis is a species of herbaceous plant

Herbaceous plant

A herbaceous plant is a plant that has leaves and stems that die down at the end of the growing season to the soil level. They have no persistent woody stem above ground...

 belonging to the family Liliaceae

Liliaceae

The Liliaceae, or the lily family, is a family of monocotyledons in the order Liliales. Plants in this family have linear leaves, mostly with parallel veins but with several having net venation , and flower arranged in threes. Several have bulbs, while others have rhizomes...

. It occurs in southeastern China

China

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. Plants of this species used to be thought to belong to the Japan

Japan

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ese species Tricyrtis macropoda

Tricyrtis macropoda

Tricyrtis macropoda is a hardy perennial in the family Liliaceae that is native to China, typically growing on grassy slopes, forests, and crevices at elevation. Flowers have reflexed tepals that are greenish white or white, with purple-red spots, blooming from June-October....

but differ in several respects, most notably in that the rhizome

Rhizome

In botany and dendrology, a rhizome is a characteristically horizontal stem of a plant that is usually found underground, often sending out roots and shoots from its nodes...

 is annual, rather than perennial. Above ground, T. chinensis is generally taller than T. macropoda (often over 1.5 m), with larger leaves

Leaves

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 and often many more flower

Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants . The biological function of a flower is to effect reproduction, usually by providing a mechanism for the union of sperm with eggs...

s on each plant (sometimes over 50). The flowers are white or yellow with small purple spots (In T. macropoda the ground colour is always white).