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Taxon: Aegopodium podagraria L.

Genus: Aegopodium
Family: Apiaceae (alt. Umbelliferae).
Nomen number: 102037
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:265. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 05-Nov-1985 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 14-Nov-1994
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE STATE NOXIOUS WEED
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:
CT*, MA*, VT*.
ªAquatic. *Terrestrial. °In seed.
Link to noxious weed information from Invaders Database System

Common names:

  • ashweed   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  • bishop's-weed   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  • goutweed   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  • ground-elder   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  • herb-Gerard   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English

Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Western Asia: Turkey
    Caucasus: Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
    Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia
    Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan
  • EUROPE
    Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Norway; Sweden
    Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
    East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine - Krym [rare]
    Southeastern Europe: Albania; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy; Romania
    Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]

      Naturalized:
  • naturalized elsewhere

References:

  • Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
  • Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  • Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
  • Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. (Glea Cron)
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
  • Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
  • Still, S. M. 1994. Manual of herbaceous ornamental plants, ed. 4. (Man HerbPl)
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
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Check other databases for Aegopodium podagraria L.:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • 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
  • Google 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.

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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?102037 (09 February 2010)

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