Taxon: Dicentra canadensis (Goldie) Walp.

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Common names:

• squirrel-corn   (Source: F WVa ) – English
  
• turkey-corn   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – English
  
• dicentre du Canada   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• silverhjärta   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (to livestock fide Kingsbury; Cooper & Johnson ed2; Lampe & McCann; Pammel; Brittonia 13:11. 1961)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Dicentra canadensis from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

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)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Ontario [s.], Quebec [s.]
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine [s.], Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota [s.e.], Missouri, Wisconsin
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - District of Columbia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina [e.], Tennessee, Virginia [n. & w.]

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).
• Browne, E. T. & R. Athey. 1992. Vascular plants of Kentucky: an annotated checklist.
• Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. 1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning. [poisonous].
• Deam, C. C. 1940. Flora of Indiana.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Duncan, W. H. & J. T. Kartesz. 1981. Vascular flora of Georgia: an annotated checklist.
• Eilers, L. J. & D. M. Roosa. 1994. The vascular plants of Iowa.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
• Jones, G. N. & G. D. Fuller. 1955. Vascular plants of Illinois.
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. [poisonous].
• Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann. 1985. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants. [poisonous].
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system (on-line resource).
• Ownbey, G. B. & T. Morley. 1991. Vascular plants of Minnesota: a checklist and atlas.
• Pammel, L. H. 1911. Manual of poisonous plants. [poisonous].
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Seymour, F. 1969. The flora of New England.
• Stern, K. R. 1961. Revision of Dicentra (Fumariaceae). Brittonia 13:41.
• Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri.
• Strausbaugh, T. D. & E. L. Core. 1978. Flora of West Virginia, ed. 2.
• Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan flora.
• Wherry, E. T. et al. 1979. Atlas of the flora of Pennsylvania.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Dicentra canadensis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Dicentra canadensis.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Dicentra canadensis.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Corydalis canadensis Goldie (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Dicentra canadensis (Goldie) Walp.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• 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:

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