 In film, Hildegard has been portrayed by Patricia Routledge in a BBC documentary called "Hildegard of Bingen" (1994), by Ángela Molina in "Barbarossa" (2009) and by Barbara Sukowa in the film "Vision", directed by Margarethe von Trotta.Hildegard was the subject of a 2012 fictionalized biographic novel "Illuminations" by Mary Sharatt.The plant genus "Hildegardia" is named after her because of her contributions to herbal medicine.