Taxon: Agrostemma githago L.

• screening of grain seed has reduced weediness
• the specific epithet is a noun in apposition, and retains its own gender and termination irrespective of the gender of the generic name (Vienna ICBN Art. 23.5)

• the 2 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

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:

AL°, AR*°, DE°, FL°, GA°, IN°, KY°, LA°, MA°, MD°, ME°, MS°, NC°, NH°, NJ°, NY°, OH°, OK*°, PA°, RI°, SC°, TN°, TX°, VT°, WV°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• cockle   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ) – English
  
• corn cockle   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• corn-campion   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• corn-pink   (Source: R. Rabeler, p.c.) – English
  
• nielle   (Source: L Noms French ed7 ) – French
  
• gewöhnliche Kornrade   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• joio-venenoso   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• nigela-dos-trigais   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• klätt   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Econ Pl Aust)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury; Cooper & Johnson ed2; Lampe & McCann)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Geigy Weed Tables, 1968)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Agrostemma githago from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

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

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan
  China: China - Heilongjiang, Jilin, Nei Monggol, Xinjiang
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Ireland; Norway; Sweden [s.]; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Hungary; Netherlands; Slovakia; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Macedonia; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Spain - Canary Islands
  Southern Africa: South Africa
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Finland
  Middle Europe: Germany; Poland
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Subarctic America: United States - Alaska
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - Manitoba, Saskatchewan
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, 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, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
  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 - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Hispaniola
  Brazil: Brazil - Rio Grande do Sul
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Uruguay

• also cultivated

• exact native range in Asia obscure

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. 2012. Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 98.
• 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).
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. 1974. The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables.
• Cabrera, A. L. & E. M. Zardini. 1978. Manual de la flora de los alrededores de Buenos Aires.
• Cabrera, A. L., ed. 1965–1970. Flora de la provincia de Buenos Aires.
• Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. 1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning. [poisonous].
• 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.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Duke, J. A. 1985. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Duncan, W. H. & J. T. Kartesz. 1981. Vascular flora of Georgia: an annotated checklist.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hansen, A. & P. Sunding. 1993. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17.
• Harrington, H. 1954. Manual of the plants of Colorado.
• Hitchcock, C. L. et al. 1955–1969. Vascular plants of the Pacific Northwest.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Jalas, J. & J. Suominen. 1972–. Atlas florae europaeae.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. [poisonous].
• Kitagawa, M. 1979. Neo-lineamenta florae Manshuricae.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Krasnoborov, I. M., ed. 2000–. Flora of Siberia (English translation).
• Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann. 1985. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants. [poisonous].
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Lems, K. 1960. Floristic botany of the Canary islands.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Marzocca, A. 1994. Guia descriptiva de malezas del cono sur. 44.
• Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie.
• Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system (on-line resource).
• Munz, P. A. & D. D. Keck. 1959. A California flora.
• Pignatti, S. 1982. Flora d'Italia.
• Quézel, P. & S. Santa. 1962–1963. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie.
• Rabeler, R. 1997. pers. comm. [re. English common names].
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act.
• Stewart, R. 1972. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of West Pakistan and Kashmir.
• Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, second edition.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina.
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Agrostemma githago.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Agrostemma githago.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Agrostemma githago.

Check other web resources for Agrostemma githago L.:

• 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
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• 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:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

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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.

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