Taxon: Lysimachia vulgaris L.

• the 1 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:

CT*, WAª*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• loosestrife   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2 ) – English
  
• willow-weed   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• willowwort   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• yellow loosestrife   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• mao huang lian hua   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• videört   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Materials: tannin/dyestuff   (fide F USSR)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; F USSR)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Tuva, Western Siberia, Yakutia-Sakha
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Uzbekistan
  China: China - Xinjiang [w.]
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France; Portugal; Spain

• naturalized elsewhere

• 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).
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Quézel, P. & S. Santa. 1962–1963. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Lysimachia vulgaris.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Lysimachia vulgaris.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Lysimachia vulgaris.

Check other web resources for Lysimachia vulgaris L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• 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:

• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org

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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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