Taxon: Dioscorea villosa L.

Common names:

• Chinaroot   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – English
  
• wild yam   (Source: Herbs Commerce ) – English
  
• wilde Yamswurzel   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2; Pract Guide Nat Med, as D. paniculata)
  

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Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Ontario
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas [e.], Minnesota [s.e.], Missouri, Nebraska [s.e.], Oklahoma [e.], Wisconsin
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas

References:

• Al-Shehbaz, I. A. & B. Schubert. 1989. J. Arnold Arbor. 70:70.
• American Herbal Products Association. 1992. Herbs of commerce. (Herbs Commerce)
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas. (F Tex)
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. (Zander ed17)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains. (F GPlains)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Ohio Flora Committee (E. L. Braun, T. S. Cooperrider, T. R. Fisher, J. J. Furlow). 1967–. The vascular flora of Ohio. (F Ohio)
• Ownbey, G. B. & T. Morley. 1991. Vascular plants of Minnesota: a checklist and atlas. (L Minn)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. (F Carolin)
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol. (F Canada)
• Seymour, F. 1969. The flora of New England. (F NEng)
• Smith, E. B. 1978. An atlas and annotated list of the vascular plants of Arkansas. (L Arkansas)
• Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri. (F Missouri)
• Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan flora. (F Mich)
• Wherry, E. T. et al. 1979. Atlas of the flora of Pennsylvania. (Atlas Penn)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Dioscorea villosa.

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

Synonyms:

• Dioscorea glauca Muhl. ex L. C. Beck
  
• (=) Dioscorea hirticaulis Bartlett
  
• (=) Dioscorea paniculata auct.
  
• (=) Dioscorea quaternata J. F. Gmel.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Dioscorea villosa var. hirticaulis (Bartlett) H. E. Ahles
  

Check other databases for Dioscorea villosa L.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

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Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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