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Taxon: Agrostemma githago L.

Genus: Agrostemma
Family: Caryophyllaceae subfamily: Caryophylloideae tribe: Sileneae.
Nomen number: 1917
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:435. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Comment: 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)
Name verified on: 21-Nov-1986 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 29-May-2007
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE STATE NOXIOUS WEED
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 Invaders Database System

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
  • joio-venenoso   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • nigela-dos-trigais   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)

Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • AFRICA
    Northern Africa: Algeria; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Western Asia: Afghanistan; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
    Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan
  • EUROPE
    Northern Europe: Ireland; Sweden [s.]; United Kingdom
    Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
    East Europe: Belarus; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
    Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania
    Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

      Naturalized:
  • widely naturalized, nearly world-wide

References:

  • CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables (Weed TabCIBA)
  • Cabrera, A. L. & E. M. Zardini. 1978. Manual de la flora de los alrededores de Buenos Aires. (Man BuenAir)
  • Cabrera, A. L., ed. 1965–1970. Flora de la provincia de Buenos Aires. (F BuenAir)
  • Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
  • Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  • Duke, J. A. 1985. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs)
  • Duncan, W. H. & J. T. Kartesz. 1981. Vascular flora of Georgia: an annotated checklist. (L Georgia)
  • Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
  • Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca. (F Zamb)
  • FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
  • Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2. (Glea Cron ed2)
  • Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist. (L Medit)
  • 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. (L Macar ed4)
  • Harrington, H. 1954. Manual of the plants of Colorado. (F Colo)
  • Hitchcock, C. L. et al. 1955–1969. Vascular plants of the Pacific Northwest. (F Pacif NW)
  • Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
  • Jalas, J. & J. Suominen. 1972–. Atlas florae europaeae. (Atlas Eur)
  • Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
  • Kitagawa, M. 1979. Neo-lineamenta florae Manshuricae. (F Manshur)
  • Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
  • Lems, K. 1960. Floristic botany of the Canary islands. (L Canar)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • Marzocco, A. 1994. Guia descriptiva de malezas del cono sur. 44.
  • Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie. (F Liban)
  • Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system - on-line resource. (Can Poison Pl)
  • Munz, P. A. & D. D. Keck. 1959. A California flora. (F CalifMunz)
  • Pignatti, S. 1982. Flora d'Italia. (F Ital)
  • Quézel, P. & S. Santa. 1962–1963. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie. (F Alger)
  • Rabeler, R. 1997. pers. comm. [re. English common names].
  • Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. (F Carolin)
  • 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. (State Noxweed Seed)
  • Stewart, R. 1972. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of West Pakistan and Kashmir. (L Pak)
  • Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri. (F Missouri)
  • Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, second edition. (F Eur ed2)
  • Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina. (F Palest)
  • Webster's third new international dictionary. (Websters Dict)
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Check other databases for Agrostemma githago L.:

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

  • Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
  • Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University
More:
  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google 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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