Taxon: Silphium laciniatum L.

Common names:

• compassplant   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• pilotweed   (Source: Zander Ency ) – English
  
• polarplant   (Source: Zander Ency ) – English
  
• rosinweed   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2 ) – English
  
• Kompasspflanze   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• kompassört   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  

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View 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)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Ontario [s.]
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Indiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas

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).
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas.
• 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. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.
• Harrington, H. 1954. Manual of the plants of Colorado.
• Jarvis, C. E. & N. J. Turland, eds. 1998. Typification of Linnaean specific and varietal names in the Compositae (Asteraceae). Taxon 47:367. [typification].
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Radford, A. E. et al., eds. 1980–. Vascular flora of the southeastern United States.
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
• Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Silphium laciniatum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Silphium laciniatum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Silphium laciniatum.

Check other web resources for Silphium laciniatum 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
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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