Taxon: Frangula caroliniana (Walter) A. Gray

Common names:

• Carolina buckthorn   (Source: Trees US [as Rhamnus caroliniana]) – English
  
• Indian-cherry   (Source: Trees US [as Rhamnus caroliniana]) – English
  
• yellow buckthorn   (Source: Websters Dict [as Rhamnus caroliniana]) – English
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Krussmann)
  
• Human food: fruit   (fide L Edible Pl; Krussmann)
  

More:

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)
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Indiana [s.], Ohio [s.]
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois [s.], Missouri [c. & s.], Oklahoma
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina [w.], South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia [s.w.]
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas

• also cultivated

References:

• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. [= Rhamnus].
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Kellermann, J. 2011. Review of Rhamnaceae data for World Economic Plants, ed. 2. pers. comm. [= Rhamnus caroliniana Walter].
• Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976).
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption. [= Rhamnus].
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541. [= Rhamnus caroliniana Walter].
• Webster's third new international dictionary. [= Rhamnus caroliniana].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Frangula caroliniana.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Frangula caroliniana.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Frangula caroliniana.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Rhamnus caroliniana Walter (basionym)
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Frangula caroliniana (Walter) A. Gray:

• 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.

More:

• 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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