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Taxon: Mertensia maritima (L.) Gray

Genus: Mertensia
Family: Boraginaceae subfamily: Boraginoideae.
Nomen number: 24111
Place of publication: Nat. arr. Brit. pl. 2:354. 1821
Name verified on: 07-Sep-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 07-Sep-1995
No species priority site assigned.
Accessions: 1 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


Common names:

  • northern shorewort   (Source: Pulmonaria ) – English
  • oysterplant   (Source: F Svalbard ) – English
  • sea bugloss   (Source: Pulmonaria ) – English
  • sea lungwort   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  • seaside smooth-gromwell   (Source: Pulmonaria ) – English
  • pulmonaire de virginie   (Source: Pulmonaria ) – French
  • sanguine de mer   (Source: Pulmonaria ) – French
  • seestrandlungenkraut   (Source: Pulmonaria ) – German
  • mertenziya morskaya   (Source: Pulmonaria ) – Transliterated Russian

Economic importance:

  • Environmental: ornamental   (fide Pulmonaria 132.)

Distributional range:

      Native:
  • EUROPE
    Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Iceland; Ireland; Svalbard and Jan Mayen; Sweden; United Kingdom

References:

  • Bennett, M. 2003. Pulmonarias and the Borage family. (Pulmonaria) 131.
  • Rønning, O. I. 1996. The flora of Svalbard. (F Svalbard)
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, second edition. (F Eur ed2)
  • Webster's third new international dictionary. (Websters Dict)
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Mertensia maritima (L.) Gray:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • 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.

Check other databases for images:

  • PlantSystematics.org
  • 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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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?24111 (09 February 2010)

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