Taxon: Mertensia virginica (L.) Pers. ex Link

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Common names:

• bluebells   (Source: F Canada ) – English
  
• Roanoke-bells   (Source: Pulmonaria [as M. pulmonarioides]) – English
  
• Virginia bluebells   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• Virginia cowslip   (Source: F Canada ) – English
  
• mertensia de Virginie   (Source: Zander Ency ) – French
  
• virginisches Blauglöckchen   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Zander ed14; Pulmonaria 135, as M. pulmonarioides)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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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, Quebec
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Indiana, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Wisconsin
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina [n.-c.], Tennessee, Virginia

• also cultivated

References:

• Bennett, M. 2003. Pulmonarias and the Borage family. 134.
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Jones, G. N. & G. D. Fuller. 1955. Vascular plants of Illinois.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. [lists as M. virginica (L.) Pers.].
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol. [lists as M. virginica (L.) Pers.].
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Mertensia virginica.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Mertensia virginica.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Mertensia virginica.

Synonyms:

• (=) Mertensia pulmonarioides Roth
  

Check other web resources for Mertensia virginica (L.) Pers. ex Link:

• 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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• 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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