By use of 18 provenances as the experimental material, we investigated the genetic variation of different agronomic characters and medicinal active ingredient content of Polygonatum cyrtonema at the provenance level. The results showed that: 1) Except for the length of rhizome, all other agronomic characters including the height, ground diameter and polysacchride content were highly different at the provenance level; 2) The height, ground diameter, leaf area had positive correlation with the length, width, fresh weight of rhizome, while, the polysacchride content showed negative correlation wi...