Abstract:The commercial crude drug of Radix Adenophorae bought from 15 provinces and autonomous regions,and RadixGlehniae bought from 17 provinces and autonomous regions werc surveyed. The original plants of 60 samples of RadixAdenophorae were identified as 9 species and 4 subspecies of genus Adennphora. The main species are Adenophorastricta, A. stricta subsp. sessilifolia,A. potaninii and A. hunanensis. Sixty two samples of Radix Glehniae were all identi-fied as the roots of Glehnia littoralis.