Taxon: Dictamnus albus L.

Common names:

• burningbush   (Source: Eur Gard F ) – English
  
• dittany   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• fraxinella   (Source: Cornucopia ) – English
  
• gasplant   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• dictame blanc   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• herbe aux éclairs   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – French
  
• brennender Busch   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• Diptam   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• weißer Diptam   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• dittamo   (Source: HerbSpices 2:213.) – Italian
  
• díctamo blanco   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• Moses brinnande buske   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Lampe & McCann)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Dictamnus albus from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Iran [n.w.]; Syria; Turkey
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Altay, Eastern Siberia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan
  Mongolia: Mongolia
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Amur, Khabarovsk, Primorye
  Eastern Asia: Korea
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India - Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh; Pakistan [n.]
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Austria; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Russian Federation - European part [s.]; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: Spain

• 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).
• Chowdhery, H. J. & B. M. Wadhwa. 1984. Flora of Himachal Pradesh.
• Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds. 1986–1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols.
• 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.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Kitagawa, M. 1979. Neo-lineamenta florae Manshuricae.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann. 1985. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system (on-line resource).
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of India.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Dictamnus albus.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Dictamnus albus.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Dictamnus albus.

Synonyms:

• (=) Dictamnus caucasicus (Fisch. & C. A. Mey.) Grossh.
  
• (=) Dictamnus fraxinellus Pers.
  
• (=) Dictamnus fraxinellus var. caucasicus Fisch. & C. A. Mey.
  

Check other web resources for Dictamnus albus 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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