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Taxon: Myosoton aquaticum (L.) Moench

Genus: Myosoton
Family: Caryophyllaceae subfamily: Alsinoideae tribe: Alsineae.
Nomen number: 401760
Place of publication: Methodus 225. 1794
Name verified on: 05-Apr-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

Common names:

  • giant chickweed   (Source: R. Rabeler, p.c.) – English
  • water chickweed   (Source: F BritStace ) – English

Economic importance:

  • Medicines: folklore   (fide R. K. Rabeler, pers. comm. 1996)
  • Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Glea Cron ed2, as Stellaria aquatica)

Distributional range:

      Native:
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Western Asia: Iran
    Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
    Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia [w.], Western Siberia
    Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan
    Mongolia: Mongolia
    China: China [n.]
    Eastern Asia: Japan
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indian Subcontinent: India [n.]; Pakistan [n.]
  • EUROPE
    Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland [s.]; Norway [s.]; Sweden [s.]; United Kingdom
    Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
    East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
    Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy [n. & c.]; Romania
    Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [n.e.]

      Naturalized:
  • naturalized elsewhere in temperate regions

References:

  • Castroviejo, S. et al., eds. 1989–. Flora iberica: plantas vasculares de la Peninsula Iberica e Islas Baleares. (F Iberica)
  • Chowdhery, H. J. & B. M. Wadhwa. 1984. Flora of Himachal Pradesh. (F Himachal)
  • Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
  • Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
  • FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
  • Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2. (Glea Cron ed2) [= Stellaria aquatica (L.) Scop.].
  • Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist. (L Medit) [= Stellaria aquatica (L.) Scop.].
  • Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. (L Nepal) [= Stellaria aquatica (L.) Scop.].
  • Jalas, J. & J. Suominen. 1972–. Atlas florae europaeae. (Atlas Eur)
  • Kitagawa, M. 1979. Neo-lineamenta florae Manshuricae. (F Manshur) [= Stellaria aquatica (L.) Scop.].
  • Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR) [= Malachium aquaticum (L.) Fr.].
  • Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption. (L Edible Pl)
  • Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
  • Rabeler, R. 1997. pers. comm. [re. English common names].
  • Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
  • Stace, C. 1995. New flora of the British Isles. (F BritStace)
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, second edition. (F Eur ed2)
More:

Synonyms:


Check other databases for Myosoton aquaticum (L.) Moench:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • 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.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

  • PlantSystematics.org
  • Google 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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URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?401760 (09 February 2010)

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