Taxon: Asparagus officinalis L.
Genus: Asparagus
Family: Asparagaceae subfamily: Asparagoideae. Also placed in:
Liliaceae
Nomen number: 300050
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:313. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 23-Jan-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 02-Dec-1998
Species priority site is: Northeast Regional PI Station (NE9). Accessions:
79 in National Plant Germplasm System.
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Native:
- AFRICA
Northern Africa: Algeria; Morocco; Tunisia
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
Western Asia: Afghanistan; Iran; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan Siberia: Russian Federation - Altay, Gorno-Altay, Khakassia, Krasnoyarsk [s.], Kurgan, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tyumen [s.] Middle Asia: Kazakhstan Mongolia: Mongolia China: China - Xinjiang [n.w.]
- EUROPE
Northern Europe: Denmark [s.] Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland East Europe: Belarus; Moldova; Ukraine [incl. Krym] Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy [incl. Sicily]; Romania Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain
Naturalized: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
Cultivated:
- PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
- Davis, P. H., ed.
1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
- Duke, J. A. et al.
2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
- Facciola, S.
1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. (Cornucopia)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
- Huxley, A., ed.
1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
- Jahandiez, E. & R. Maire.
1931–1941. Catalogue des plantes du Maroc. (L Maroc)
- Komarov, V. L. et al., eds.
1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
- Krasnoborov, I. M., ed.
2000. Flora of Siberia (English translation). (F Siberia)
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
- Mouterde, P.
1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie. (F Liban)
- Ohwi, J.
1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.). (F JapanOhwi)
- Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
- Rechinger, K. H., ed.
1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
- Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
- Siemonsma, J. S. & Kasem Piluek, eds.
1993. Vegetables.
Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs)
8:91.
- Terrell, E. E. et al.
1986. Agric. Handb. no. 505. (AH 505)
- Tutin, T. G. et al., eds.
1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
- Weber, E.
2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)
- Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)
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Synonyms:
Check other databases for Asparagus officinalis L.:
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Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
- Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
- AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium Map Display Interface
- 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
- PROTABASE: Plant Resources of
Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
- 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:
- Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
- Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
- Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University
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- Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
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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.
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Cite as: 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?300050 (09 February 2010)
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