Taxon: Chamaedaphne calyculata (L.) Moench

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Common names:

• leatherleaf   (Source: F AlaskaAnd ) – English
  
• finnmyrten   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Amur, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Magadan, Primorye, Sakhalin
  China: China - Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Monggol
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Hokkaido
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Finland; Sweden
  Middle Europe: Poland
  East Europe: Belarus; Russian Federation - European part
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Subarctic America: Canada - Northwest Territory, Yukon Territory
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia
• ALSO
  Russian Federation [n.]

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).
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Deam, C. C. 1940. Flora of Indiana.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
• Jones, G. N. & G. D. Fuller. 1955. Vascular plants of Illinois.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Mitchell, R. S., ed. 1986. A checklist of New York state plants. New York State Mus. Bull. 458.
• Ohio Flora Committee (E. L. Braun, T. S. Cooperrider, T. R. Fisher, J. J. Furlow). 1967–. The vascular flora of Ohio.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
• Ownbey, G. B. & T. Morley. 1991. Vascular plants of Minnesota: a checklist and atlas.
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Rhoads, A. F. & W. M. Klein, Jr. 1993. The vascular flora of Pennsylvannia. Annotated checklist and atlas.
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
• Seymour, F. 1969. The flora of New England.
• Stone, W. 1973. The plants of southern New Jersey.
• Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan flora.
• Welsh, S. L. 1974. Anderson's flora of Alaska and adjacent parts of Canada.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Chamaedaphne calyculata.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Chamaedaphne calyculata.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Chamaedaphne calyculata.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Andromeda calyculata L. (basionym)
  
• (=) Cassandra calyculata (L.) D. Don
  

Check other web resources for Chamaedaphne calyculata (L.) Moench:

• 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
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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