Taxon: Drymaria arenarioides Humb. & Bonpl. ex Schult.

A declared noxious weed by USDA-APHIS.

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:

AZ*°, FL*, MA*, NC*, NM*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• alfombrilla   (Source: State Noxweed Seed ) – English
  
• lightningweed   (Source: USDA/APHIS ) – English
  
• drimária   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  

Economic importance:

• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury)
  
• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide USDA/APHIS)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Drymaria arenarioides from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

      Native:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Sur, Chihuahua, San Luis Potosi, Sonora, Zacatecas
  Central Mexico: Mexico - Guanajuato, Hidalgo

References:

• Duke, J. A. 1961. Preliminary revision of the genus Drymaria. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 48:196. [lists as D. arenarioides Humb. & Bonpl. ex Roem. & Schult.].
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Plant Protection and Quarantine Office. United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Federal noxious weed list. (USDA/APHIS)
• Rzedowski, J. & G. Rzedowski, eds. 1979–. Flora fanerogámica del Valle de México. (F Valle Mex) [lists as D. arenarioides Willd.].
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act. (State Noxweed Seed)
• Shreve, F. & I. L. Wiggins. 1964. Vegetation and flora of the Sonoran desert. (F SonorDes) [lists as D. arenarioides Willd.].
• Wiggins, I. L. 1980. Flora of Baja California. (F Baja) [lists as D. arenarioides Willd.].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Drymaria arenarioides.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Drymaria arenarioides. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for Drymaria arenarioides Humb. & Bonpl. ex Schult.:

• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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:

• Disseminule drawings: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• 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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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?316379 (09 February 2010)

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