Taxon: Ornithogalum nutans L.

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Common names:

• drooping star-of-Bethlehem   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• nodding star-of-Bethlehem   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• nickender Milchstern   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• aftonstjärna   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Eur Gard F)
  
• Weed   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Turkey
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Ukraine [s.?]
  Southeastern Europe: Bulgaria; Greece

• naturalized elsewhere in temperate regions

• also cultivated in temperate regions

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).
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• Czerepanov, S. K. 1995. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR).
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Manning, J. C. et al. 2009. A molecular phylogeny and a revised classification of Ornithogaloideae (Hyacinthaceae) based on an analysis of four plastid DNA regions. Taxon 58:103.
• Pignatti, S. 1982. Flora d'Italia.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Ornithogalum nutans.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Ornithogalum nutans.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Ornithogalum nutans.

Check other web resources for Ornithogalum nutans L.:

• 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
• 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:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• 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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