Taxon: Lysichiton americanus Hultén & H. St. John

Common names:

• American skunk-cabbage   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• western skunk-cabbage   (Source: F Canada ) – English
  
• yellow skunk-cabbage   (Source: F CalifJep ) – English
  
• gul skunkkalla   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Subarctic America: United States - Alaska [s.]
  Western Canada: Canada - British Columbia
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Idaho, Montana [w.], Oregon, Washington
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California [n.w.]

• also 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).
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Dorn, R. D. 1977. Manual of the vascular plants of Wyoming. ["americanum"].
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Govaerts, R. & D. G. Frodin. 2002. World checklist and bibliography of Araceae (and Acoraceae).
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California. ["americanum"].
• Hitchcock, C. L. et al. 1955–1969. Vascular plants of the Pacific Northwest. ["Lysichitum americanum"].
• Hultén, O. E. G. 1940–1949. Flora of Alaska and Yukon. ["Lysichitum americanum"].
• Hultén, O. E. G. 1968. Flora of Alaska and neighboring territories. ["americanum"].
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. ["americanum"].
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Munz, P. A. & D. D. Keck. 1959. A California flora. ["americanum"].
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol. ["Lysichitum americanum"].
• Welsh, S. L. 1974. Anderson's flora of Alaska and adjacent parts of Canada. ["americanum"].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Lysichiton americanus.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Lysichiton americanus.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Lysichiton americanus.

Synonyms:

• (=) Lysichiton camtschatcensis auct.
  

Check other web resources for Lysichiton americanus Hultén & H. St. John:

• 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:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

More:

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• 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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