Taxon: Toxicodendron radicans (L.) Kuntze

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

MN*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

See also subordinate taxa:

• Toxicodendron radicans subsp. eximium (no accessions)
• Toxicodendron radicans subsp. radicans (no accessions)
• Toxicodendron radicans subsp. verrucosum (no accessions)

Common names:

• poison-ivy   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  

Economic importance:

• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury; Lampe & McCann; Pammel; Everist; Noxweed Aust)
  
• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Noxweed Aust)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Toxicodendron radicans from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

      Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Kurile Islands, Sakhalin
  China: China [w. & c.]
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Taiwan
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Nova Scotia, Ontario [s.]
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota [s.e.], Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Wisconsin
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona [s.e.]
  Mexico
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Guatemala
  Caribbean: Bahamas; Bermuda

References:

• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
• Gillis. 1971. Rhodora 73:72–159, 161–237, 370–443, 465–540.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2) [with six subspecies].
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia. (Noxweed Aust)
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. (F Carolin) [= of Rhus].
• Rehder, A. 1949. Bibliography of cultivated trees and shrubs. (Rehder) [= Rhus].
• Whitson, T. D. et al., eds. 1999. Weeds of the West, ed. 5. (Weeds West)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Toxicodendron radicans.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Toxicodendron radicans. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• Rhus littoralis Mearns [= Toxicodendron radicans subsp. radicans]
  
• Rhus radicans L. [≡ Toxicodendron radicans subsp. radicans]
  
• Rhus radicans var. littoralis (Mearns) Deam [= Toxicodendron radicans subsp. radicans]
  
• Rhus radicans var. verrucosum (Scheele) Fernald [≡ Toxicodendron radicans subsp. verrucosum]
  
• Rhus verrucosa Scheele [≡ Toxicodendron radicans subsp. verrucosum]
  
• Toxicodendron eximium Greene [≡ Toxicodendron radicans subsp. eximium]
  

Check other databases for Toxicodendron radicans (L.) Kuntze:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?101866 (09 February 2010)

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