Taxon: Eryngium yuccifolium Michx.

Common names:

• button eryngo   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – English
  
• button snakeroot   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• rattlesnake-master   (Source: NRCS Cons Pl Mat ) – English
  
• yuccablättriger Mannstreu   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• skallerormsmartorn   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (for roadsides & prairies fide NRCS Cons Pl Mat 1999)
  
• Environmental: revegetator   (for roadsides & prairies fide NRCS Cons Pl Mat 1999)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

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, Michigan [s.w.], Ohio
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas [e.], Minnesota [s.], Missouri, Oklahoma, 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).
• Brown, R. G. & M. L. Brown. 1984. Herbaceous plants of Maryland.
• Browne, E. T. & R. Athey. 1992. Vascular plants of Kentucky: an annotated checklist.
• Chester, E. W. et al. 1993–1997. Atlas of Tennessee vascular plants.
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas.
• Eilers, L. J. & D. M. Roosa. 1994. The vascular plants of Iowa.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Mohlenbrock, R. H. & D. M. Ladd. 1978. Distribution of Illinois vascular plants.
• Ohio Flora Committee (E. L. Braun, T. S. Cooperrider, T. R. Fisher, J. J. Furlow). 1967–. The vascular flora of Ohio.
• Ownbey, G. B. & T. Morley. 1991. Vascular plants of Minnesota: a checklist and atlas.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan flora.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Eryngium yuccifolium.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Eryngium yuccifolium.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Eryngium yuccifolium.

Check other web resources for Eryngium yuccifolium Michx.:

• 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
• 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.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

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• 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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