Taxon: Gelsemium sempervirens (L.) J. St.-Hil.

Common names:

• Carolina-jasmine   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• evening trumpet-flower   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• gelsemium   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – English
  
• woodbine   (Source: Ency CNatIn ) – English
  
• yellow-jessamine   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• giftjasmin   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Krussmann; Dict Gard)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury; Lampe & McCann)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Gelsemium sempervirens from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical or 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)
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Mexico
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Guatemala; Honduras

• 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).
• Clark, R. C. 1971. The woody plants of Alabama. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 58:230.
• 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.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. [poisonous].
• Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976).
• Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann. 1985. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants. [poisonous].
• Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Meyer, F. G. et al. 1994. A catalog of cultivated woody plants of the southeastern United States.
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala. [= G. sempervirens (L.) Persoon].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Gelsemium sempervirens.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Gelsemium sempervirens.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Gelsemium sempervirens.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Bignonia sempervirens L. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Gelsemium sempervirens (L.) J. St.-Hil.:

• 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 Gelsemium sempervirens 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:

• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• Fruit: 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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