Taxon: Gypsophila elegans M. Bieb.

Common names:

• annual baby's-breath   (Source: R. Rabeler, p.c.) – English
  
• showy baby's-breath   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• gypsophile élégant   (Source: L Noms French ed7 ) – French
  
• Sommer-Schleierkraut   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• kačim izâŝnyj   (Source: F Armenia ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• sommarslöja   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Eur Gard F; F NAmer)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Iran [w.]; Turkey [e.]
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Ukraine [s. & Krym]

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Spain - Canary Islands
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Subarctic America: Canada - Northwest Territory, Yukon Territory; United States - Alaska
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Ontario, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, Saskatchewan
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Oregon
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California, Utah
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Guatemala

• widely 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).
• Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963–1968. Flora of Java.
• Barkoudah, Y. L. 1962. A revision of Gypsophila, Bolanthus, Ankyropetalum and Phryna. Wentia 9:134–135.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Demilly, D. et al. 2001. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Eriksson, O. et al. 1979. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 2.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
• Hegi, G. et al. Illustrierte Flora von Mittel-Europa. ed. 1:1906-1931; ed. 2:1936-68; ed. 3:1966- 3. 2:956, 958. [1979].
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Jalas, J. & J. Suominen. 1972–. Atlas florae europaeae.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Pignatti, S. 1982. Flora d'Italia. [in note].
• Rabeler, R. 1994. pers. comm. [re. English common names].
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Takhtajan, A. L., ed. 1954–1987. Flora Armenii.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, second edition.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.
• Welsh, S. L. & G. Moore. 1973. Utah Plants.

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Check other web resources for Gypsophila elegans M. Bieb.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• 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
• 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:

• Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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