Taxon: Senna marilandica (L.) Link

Common names:

• American senna   (Source: Pl Book ) – English
  
• wild senna   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• amerikansk senna   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Kansas [e.], Missouri, Nebraska [s.e.], Oklahoma [e.], Wisconsin
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Irwin, H. S. & R. C. Barneby. 1982. The American Cassiinae: a synoptical revision of Leguminosae tribe Cassieae subtribe Cassiinae in the New World. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 35:444.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Luckow, M. 1996. The cultivated species of Cassia, Senna, and Chamaecrista (Leguminosae). Baileya 23:224.
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2.
• Wherry, E. T. et al. 1979. Atlas of the flora of Pennsylvania.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Senna marilandica.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Senna marilandica.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Senna marilandica.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Cassia marilandica L. (basionym)
  
• (=) Cassia medsgeri Shafer
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Senna marilandica (L.) Link:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images or nodulation data:

• Fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• GRIN nodulation data

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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