Taxon: Magnolia virginiana L.

Common names:

• laurel magnolia   (Source: Trees US ) – English
  
• swamp bay   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• swamp-laurel   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• sweet bay   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• sweet magnolia   (Source: Trees US ) – English
  
• laurier doux   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• virginiamagnolia   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Materials: wood   (timber fide Ency WTimber)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

More:

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

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)
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York [s.e.], Pennsylvania [s.e.]
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia [e.]
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas

• 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).
• Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature.
• Callaway, D. J. 1994. The world of magnolias. 75–77.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Frodin, D. G. & R. Govaerts. 1996. World checklist and bibliography of Magnoliaceae.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Seymour, F. 1969. The flora of New England.
• Spongberg, S. A. 1976. Magnoliaceae hardy in temperate North America. J. Arnold Arbor. 57:265.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Magnolia virginiana.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Magnolia virginiana.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Magnolia virginiana.

Synonyms:

• (=) Magnolia glauca (L.) L.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Magnolia virginiana var. australis Sarg.
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)

Check other web resources for Magnolia virginiana L.:

• 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
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Magnolia virginiana cultivars
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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