Taxon: Hedera helix L.
Genus: Hedera
Family: Araliaceae subfamily: Aralioideae.
Nomen number: 300252
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:202. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 29-Sep-1997 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 29-Sep-1997
Species priority site is: National Arboretum (NA).
NO ACCESSIONS IN
NPGS UNDER THIS NAME. Check AABGA/NAPCC contact person for genus for
possible non-NPGS germplasm.
SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE STATE NOXIOUS WEED
- 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:
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OR(except named horticultural varieties)*.
| ªAquatic.
| *Terrestrial.
| °In seed.
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- Link to noxious weed information from

See also subordinate taxa:
- common ivy (Source: F BritStace
) – English [Hedera helix subsp. helix]
- English ivy (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English [Hedera helix subsp. helix]
- Italian ivy (Source: Dict Gard
) – English [Hedera helix subsp. poetarum]
- ivy (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English
- poet's ivy (Source: Dict Gard
) – English [Hedera helix subsp. poetarum]
- yellow-berry ivy (Source: BSBI
) – English [Hedera helix subsp. poetarum]
- Engelse hedera (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001
) – Afrikaans [Hedera helix subsp. helix]
- lierre grimpant (Source: Zander Ency
) – French [Hedera helix subsp. helix]
- Efeu (Source: Zander ed14
) – German
- gewöhnlicher Efeu (Source: Zander Ency
) – German [Hedera helix subsp. helix]
- More:
Native:
- AFRICA
Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands Northern Africa: Algeria; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
Western Asia: Cyprus; Israel; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey Caucasus: Armenia [n.]; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
- EUROPE
Northern Europe: Denmark; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland East Europe: Belarus; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Ukraine [incl. Krym] Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]
Naturalized: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
Cultivated:
- Ackerfield, J.
2001. Trichome morphology in Hedera (Araliaceae).
Edinburgh J. Bot.
58:259–267.
- Botanical Society of the British Isles.
2007. BSBI checklist. (BSBI)
- 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)
- Encke, F. et al.
1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage. (Zander ed14)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
- Govaerts, R. & D. G. Frodin.
2004. World checklist and bibliography of Araliaceae. (L Araliaceae)
- Greuter, W. et al., eds.
1984–. Med-Checklist. (L Medit)
- Henderson, L.
2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12. (Weeds SAfr 2001)
- Huxley, A., ed.
1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
- Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds.
2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres. (L Canaries)
- Komarov, V. L. et al., eds.
1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
- Krüssmann, G.
1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976). (Krussmann)
- Lazarides, M. & B. Hince.
1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. (Econ Pl Aust)
- Malezasdemexico.
Malezas de México - on-line resource. (Malezas Mex)
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
- Meyer, F. G. et al.
1994. A catalog of cultivated woody plants of the southeastern United States. (L CultWPl SE US)
- Munro, D. B.
Canadian poisonous plants information system - on-line resource. (Can Poison Pl)
- Stace, C.
1995. New flora of the British Isles. (F BritStace)
- 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)
- More:
Synonyms:
Check other databases for Hedera helix L.:
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Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
- 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
- ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority for Hedera helix 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.
Note: Defaults to a search by genus
or species epithet if species binomial not found.
Images:
- More:
- 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?300252 (09 February 2010)
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