Taxon: Hydrangea arborescens L.

Common names:

• sevenbark   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• smooth hydrangea   (Source: AH 505 ) – English
  
• tree hydrangea   (Source: Zander Ency ) – English
  
• wild hydrangea   (Source: F GPlains ) – English
  
• hortensia de Virginie   (Source: Zander Ency ) – French
  
• Wald-Hortensie   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• migugsugug   (Source: F Korea ) – Transcribed Korean
  
• vidjehortensia   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Baileya 4:168. 1956; Hortus 3; Dict Gard)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Ency CNatIn; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Hydrangea arborescens from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical or 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 - Indiana, New Jersey, New York [s.], Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Kansas [Cherokee Co.], Missouri, Oklahoma
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi [e.], North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Massachusetts

• 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).
• Browne, E. T. & R. Athey. 1992. Vascular plants of Kentucky: an annotated checklist.
• Clewell, A. F. 1985. Guide to the vascular plants of the Florida panhandle.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• 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.
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada.
• Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976).
• Lee, Y. N. 1997. Flora of Korea.
• Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• McClintock, E. 1956. The cultivated hydrangeas. Baileya 4:168.
• McClintock, E. 1957. A monograph of the genus Hydrangea. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 29:168.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Smith, E. B. 1978. An atlas and annotated list of the vascular plants of Arkansas.
• Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri.
• Strausbaugh, T. D. & E. L. Core. 1978. Flora of West Virginia, ed. 2.
• Terrell, E. E. et al. 1986. Agric. Handb. no. 505.
• Wherry, E. T. et al. 1979. Atlas of the flora of Pennsylvania.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Hydrangea arborescens.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Hydrangea arborescens.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Hydrangea arborescens.

Synonyms:

• (=) Hydrangea arborescens subsp. arborescens
  
• (=) Viburnum alnifolium Marshall
  
• (=) Viburnum americanum Mill.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Hydrangea arborescens 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 Hydrangea arborescens 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.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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