Taxon: Glehnia littoralis F. Schmidt ex Miq.

Common names:

• beach silvertop   (Source: Herbs Commerce ) – English
  
• bei sha shen   (Source: Herbs Commerce ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• shan hu cai   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – Transcribed Chinese
  

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (fide Mansf Ency)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Khabarovsk, Primorye, Sakhalin
  China: China - Fujian, Guangdong, Hebei, Jiangsu, Liaoning, Shandong, Zhejiang
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku; Korea; Taiwan
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Subarctic America: United States - Alaska
  Western Canada: Canada - British Columbia [w.]
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Oregon [w.], Washington [w.]
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California [n.w.]

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China [n.]
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Korea

References:

• American Herbal Products Association. 1992. Herbs of commerce.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Czerepanov, S. K. 1995. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR).
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Natural Products Research Institute, Seoul National University. 1998. Medicinal plants in the Republic of Korea. WHO Regional Publications Western Pacific Series No. 21.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Glehnia littoralis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Glehnia littoralis.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Glehnia littoralis.

Check other web resources for Glehnia littoralis F. Schmidt ex Miq.:

• 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.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

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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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