Taxon: Elsholtzia ciliata (Thunb.) Hyl.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

CT*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• crested late-summer mint   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – English
  
• echte Kamminze   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – German
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Weed   (fide F USSR, as E. patrinii)
  

More:

View phytochemical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

      Native:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia [s.], Western Siberia [s.e.]
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Far East
  Mongolia: Mongolia
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Japan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India - Jammu and Kashmir
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Malaysia [Malaya]

      Naturalized:

• EUROPE
  Europe
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  North America
• ALSO
  Asia

      Cultivated:

• EUROPE
  Europe
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  North America
• ALSO
  Asia

      Other:

• exact native range obscure

References:

• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
• Chowdhery, H. J. & B. M. Wadhwa. 1984. Flora of Himachal Pradesh. (F Himachal)
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage. (Zander ed16)
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. (L Nepal)
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Elsholtzia ciliata.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Elsholtzia ciliata. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (=) Elsholtzia cristata Willd.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Elsholtzia patrinii (Lepech.) Garcke
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (≡) Sideritis ciliata Thunb. (basionym)
  

Check other databases for Elsholtzia ciliata (Thunb.) Hyl.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• 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.

Check other databases for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?403974 (09 February 2010)

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