      
Taxon: Tilia americana L.
Genus: Tilia
Family: Malvaceae subfamily: Tilioideae. Also placed in:
Tiliaceae
Nomen number: 36668
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:514. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 07-Nov-1985 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 23-Aug-1994
Species priority site is: National Arboretum (NA).
Accessions:
2 in National Plant Germplasm System.
Check PlantSearch
database of Botanic Gardens
Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.
See also subordinate taxa:
- American basswood (Source: Syst Bot
15:43.) – English [Tilia americana var. americana]
- American lime (Source: Dict Gard
) – English [Tilia americana var. americana]
- American linden (Source: Dict Gard
) – English [Tilia americana var. americana]
- beetree (Source: AH 519
) – English [Tilia americana var. heterophylla]
- Carolina basswood (Source: Syst Bot
15:45. 1990) – English [Tilia americana var. caroliniana]
- linden (Source: AH 519
) – English [Tilia americana var. heterophylla]
- Mexican basswood (Source: Syst Bot
15:45. 1990) – English [Tilia americana var. mexicana]
- white basswood (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English [Tilia americana var. heterophylla]
- amerikanische Linde (Source: Zander Ency
) – German [Tilia americana var. americana]
- verschiedenblättrige Linde (Source: Zander Ency
) – German [Tilia americana var. heterophylla]
- tília (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- cyrimbo (Source: F NGalicia
) – Spanish [Tilia americana var. mexicana]
- flor de tila (Source: F NGalicia
) – Spanish [Tilia americana var. mexicana]
- sirima (Source: F NGalicia
) – Spanish [Tilia americana var. mexicana]
- tirimo (Source: F NGalicia
) – Spanish [Tilia americana var. mexicana]
- tzirimo (Source: F NGalicia
) – Spanish [Tilia americana var. mexicana]
- svartlind (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn
) – Swedish
- Bee plants: honey production (fide Dict Econ Pl; Hortus 3)
- Environmental: ornamental (fide AH 519)
- Environmental: shade/shelter (fide AH 519)
- Materials: fiber (wood pulp and veneer, laminated wood fide AH 519)
- Materials: wood (wood pulp and veneer, laminated wood fide AH 519)
- More:
Native: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
- NORTHERN AMERICA
(Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Ontario, Quebec [s.]
Western Canada: Canada - Manitoba [s.e.]
Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia
North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas [e.], Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska [n. & e.], North Dakota [e.], Oklahoma, South Dakota [e.], Wisconsin
Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina [w.], Tennessee
South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
Northern Mexico: Mexico - Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas
Southern Mexico: Mexico - Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Morelos, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Veracruz
Cultivated:
- 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).
- Boutelje, J. B.
1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature.
- Clark, R. C.
1971. The woody plants of Alabama.
Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard.
58:205.
- Erhardt, W. et al.
2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
- Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm.
[re. Brazilian common names].
- Hardin, J. W.
1990. Variation patterns and recognition of varieties of Tilia americana s.l.
Syst. Bot.
15:33–48.
- Huxley, A., ed.
1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
4:468.
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third.
- Little, E. L., Jr.
1978. Important forest trees of the United States.
- Little, E. L., Jr.
1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541.
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
- Radford, A. E. et al.
1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
- Rzedowski, J. & G. Rzedowski, eds.
1991–. Flora del Bajio y de regiones adyacentes.
- Uphof, J. C. T.
1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2.
- Walters, S. M. et al., eds.
1986–. European garden flora.
- More:
Synonyms:
Check other web resources for Tilia americana L.:
- 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 Tilia americana 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:
- Fruit: 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.
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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?36668 (21 May 2013)
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