Taxon: Gaultheria shallon Pursh

Common names:

• salal   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• shallon   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• vaktelbär   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Eur Gard F)
  
• Human food: fruit   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Animal food: forage   (for wild animals fide F Eur; F Pacif NW)
  

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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)
  Subarctic America: United States - Alaska [s.e.]
  Western Canada: Canada - British Columbia
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Oregon, Washington
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California

• 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).
• Hitchcock, C. L. et al. 1955–1969. Vascular plants of the Pacific Northwest.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Luteyn, J. L. et al. 1995. Ericaceae - Part II. The superior-ovaried genera (Monotropoideae. Pyroloideae, Rhododendroideae. and Vaccinioideae p.p.). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 66:398. [mentions].
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Parsons, M. J. et al. 1995. Current names for wild plants in New Zealand.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. [naturalized].
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.
• Welsh, S. L. 1974. Anderson's flora of Alaska and adjacent parts of Canada.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Gaultheria shallon.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Gaultheria shallon.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Gaultheria shallon.

Check other web resources for Gaultheria shallon Pursh:

• 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
• New World Fruits Database: Online database from Bioversity International
• 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.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• 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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