Taxon: Epigaea repens L.

Common names:

• gravelroot   (Source: Herbs Commerce ) – English
  
• mayflower   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• trailing-arbutus   (Source: Herbs Commerce ) – English
  
• amerikanskt järpbär   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Eur Gard F)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

More:

View 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)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Newfoundland
  Western Canada: Canada - Manitoba
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Wisconsin
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia

• 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).
• American Herbal Products Association. 1992. Herbs of commerce.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Jones, G. N. & G. D. Fuller. 1955. Vascular plants of Illinois.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Luteyn, J. L. et al. 1996. Ericaceae of the southeastern United States. Castanea 61:112.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Seymour, F. 1969. The flora of New England.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Epigaea repens.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Epigaea repens.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Epigaea repens.

Check other web resources for Epigaea repens 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
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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