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Taxon: Ligusticum scoticum L.

Genus: Ligusticum
Family: Apiaceae (alt. Umbelliferae).
Nomen number: 402618
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:250. 1753 "scothicum"
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Comment: Linnaeus corrected his original spelling in Syst. nat. ed. 10, 2:958. 1759
Name verified on: 25-Aug-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 09-Apr-2007
No species priority site assigned.
Accessions: 6 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


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Common names:

  • beach lovage   (Source: F AlaskaHult ) – English
  • Scots lovage   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English

Economic importance:

  • Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  • Medicines: folklore   (fide M. G. Pimenov, pers. comm. 1996)
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Distributional range:

      Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Kamchatka, Magadan
    Eastern Asia: Japan; Korea
  • EUROPE
    Northern Europe: Denmark; Iceland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
    East Europe: Russian Federation - European part
  • NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
    Subarctic America: Greenland; United States - Alaska
    Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec
    Western Canada: Canada - British Columbia [w.]
    Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island

References:

  • Czerepanov, S. K. 1995. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR). (L USSR)
  • Hultén, O. E. G. 1968. Flora of Alaska and neighboring territories. (F AlaskaHult)
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. as L. scoticum. In: Huxley, A., ed., The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard) ["scothicum"].
  • Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2) ["scothicum"].
  • Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
  • Magee, D. W. & H. E. Ahles. 1999. Flora of the Northeast. A manual of the vascular flora of New England and adjacent New York. (F NE US)
  • Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol. (F Canada) ["scothicum"].
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Ligusticum scoticum L.:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • 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.

Images:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • 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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National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?402618 (09 February 2010)

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