Taxon: Tilia cordata Mill.

Common names:

• linden   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – English
  
• littleleaf linden   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• small-leaf European linden   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• small-leaf lime   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• small-leaf linden   (Source: Dict Econ Pl ) – English
  
• tilleul à petites feuilles   (Source: Zander Ency ) – French
  
• tilleul des bois   (Source: Zander Ency ) – French
  
• Winterlinde   (Source: Zander ed14 ) – German
  
• tiglia selvatico   (Source: Mult Glossary Trees ) – Italian
  
• skogslind   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Bee plants: honey production   (fide Dict Econ Pl)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Krussmann)
  
• Environmental: shade/shelter   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Fuels: charcoal   (fide Dict Econ Pl)
  
• Gene sources: ornamental features   (fide Krussmann)
  
• Materials: wood   (timber fide Ency WTimber)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Caucasus: Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Western Siberia [s.]
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Italy; Romania; Turkey - Istanbul
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Spain

• also cultivated

References:

• Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds. Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource).
• 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.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 4:468.
• International Seed Testing Association. 1971. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 2. Trees.
• Jiangsu Inst. Bot., ed. v. 1; Shan. R. H., ed. v. 2. 1977–1982. Jiangsu Zhiwuzhi (Flora of Jiangsu).
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976).
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Uphof, J. C. T. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.

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Synonyms:

• (=) Tilia parvifolia Ehrh.
  
• (=) Tilia ulmifolia Scop.
  

Check other web resources for Tilia cordata Mill.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Tilia cordata 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 and 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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