Taxon: Scabiosa atropurpurea L.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Scabiosa atropurpurea subsp. atropurpurea (no accessions)
• Scabiosa atropurpurea subsp. maritima (no accessions)

Common names:

• mournful-widow   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• pincushions   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• purple pincushion   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• sweet scabious   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• scabieuse maritime   (Source: L Noms French ed7 ) – French
  
• Samt-Skabiose   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• praktvädd   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Pl Book)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria [n.]; Libya [n.]; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Turkey [n. & w.]
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores, Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Maine, Massachusetts
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Western South America: Ecuador - Tungurahua
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Uruguay

• 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).
• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• Baldwin, B. G. et al., eds. The Jepson manual: vascular plants of California (on-line resource).
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Demilly, D. et al. 2001. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist. [= Sixalix atropurpurea (L.) Greuter & Burdet].
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
• Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2.
• Magee, D. W. & H. E. Ahles. 1999. Flora of the Northeast. A manual of the vascular flora of New England and adjacent New York.
• Mayer, V. & F. Ehrendorfer. 1999. Fruit differentiation, palynology, and systematics in the Scabiosa group of genera and Pseudoscabiosa (Dipsacaceae). Pl. Syst. Evol. 216:137.
• Press, J. R. & M. J. Short, eds. 1994. Flora of Madeira.
• Silva, L. et al. 2005. Listagem da fauna e flora terrestres dos Açores. Lista des plantas vasculares (Pteridophyta e Spermatophyta).
• Turner, B. L. et al. 2003. Atlas of the vascular plants of Texas. Sida Botanical Miscellany no. 24.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Verlaque, R. 1986. Etude biosystematique et phylogenetique des Dipsacaceae. IV. Tribus des Scabioseae (phylum #1,. Rev. Cytol. Biol. Veg. Botaniste 9:5–72. [places in Scabiosa sect. Cyrtostemma].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Scabiosa atropurpurea.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Scabiosa atropurpurea.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Scabiosa atropurpurea.

Synonyms:

• Scabiosa maritima L. [≡ Scabiosa atropurpurea subsp. maritima]
  
• Sixalix atropurpurea (L.) Greuter & Burdet [≡ Scabiosa atropurpurea subsp. atropurpurea]
  
• Sixalix atropurpurea subsp. maritima (L.) Greuter & Burdet [≡ Scabiosa atropurpurea subsp. maritima]
  

Check other web resources for Scabiosa atropurpurea L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• 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
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• 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.

Images:

• Fruiting head: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Fruits, individual: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seed, naked: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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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