Taxon: Aegopodium podagraria L.

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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

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
  
• egopode   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – French
  
• podagraire   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – French
  
• Geißfuß   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – German
  
• Giersch   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – German
  
• castalda   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Italian
  
• girardina silvestre   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Italian
  
• kirskål   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Man HerbPl)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide M. G. Pimenov, pers. comm. 1996; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Weed   (fide Dict Gard; Pl Book)
  

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Distributional range:

• 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 elsewhere

• also cultivated

References:

• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Pimenov, M. G. 1996. pers. comm. [re. common names].
• Still, S. M. 1994. Manual of herbaceous ornamental plants, ed. 4.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Aegopodium podagraria.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Aegopodium podagraria.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Aegopodium podagraria.

Check other web resources 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.

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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