Taxon: Humulus lupulus L.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Humulus lupulus var. cordifolius (4 accessions)
• Humulus lupulus var. lupuloides (272 accessions)
• Humulus lupulus var. lupulus (208 accessions)
• Humulus lupulus var. neomexicanus (98 accessions)
• Humulus lupulus var. pubescens (13 accessions)

Common names:

• bine   (Source: Dict Gard )
  
• common hop   (Source: Zander Ency )
  
• European hop   (Source: Dict Gard )
  
• gewöhnlicher Hopfen   (Source: Zander Ency )
  
• hop   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  
• Hopfen   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• houblon   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• lúparo   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
  
• lúpulo   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• pi jiu hua   (Source: F ChinaEng )
  
• vinho-do-norte   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (source of a bitter substance used for preparing beer fide Ency CNatIn)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Ency CNatIn; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Morocco
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Israel; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Altay, Buryatia, Chita, Gorno-Altay, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, Kurgan, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk, Tyumen
  Middle Asia: Kyrgyzstan
  China: China - Gansu, Sichuan [n.], Xinjiang
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Hokkaido, Honshu
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czech Republic; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Slovakia; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece; Italy; Macedonia; Montenegro; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France; Portugal; Spain
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, 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 - Colorado, Montana
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Arkansas, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Chihuahua

Other:

• widely naturalized

References:

• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. (Zander Ency)
• 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].
• Hackett, C. & J. Carolane. 1982. Edible Horticultural Crops. (Edible HC)
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan. (F Japan)
• Jalas, J. & J. Suominen. 1972–. Atlas florae europaeae. (Atlas Eur)
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
• Krasnoborov, I. M., ed. 2000. Flora of Siberia (English translation). (F Siberia)
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption. (L Edible Pl)
• Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2. (Ency CNatIn)
• Magness, J. R. et al. 1971. Food and feed crops of the United States. IR Bull. 1. (Crops US)
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• 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)
• Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system - on-line resource. (Can Poison Pl)
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.). (F JapanOhwi)
• Pajaujis Anonis, D. 1993. Flower oils and floral compounds in perfumery. (Flower Oils)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Small, E. 1978. A numerical and nomenclatural analysis of morpho-geographic taxa of Humulus. Syst. Bot. 3:61. [with five varieties].
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Humulus lupulus.

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

Synonyms:

• Humulus americanus Nutt. [= Humulus lupulus var. lupuloides]
  
• Humulus cordifolius Miq. [≡ Humulus lupulus var. cordifolius]
  

Check other databases for Humulus lupulus L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• 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:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

More:

• 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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