Taxon: Lonicera caprifolium L.

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Common names:

• Italian honeysuckle   (Source: Zander Ency ) – English
  
• Italian woodbine   (Source: PLANTS ) – English
  
• perfoliate honeysuckle   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• clématite des jardins   (Source: Zander Ency ) – French
  
• Jelängerjelieber   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• wohlriechendes Geißblatt   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• kaprifol   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC Medherbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2; F USSR)
  

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Distributional range:

• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Norway; Sweden
  Middle Europe: Austria; Czechoslovakia; Hungary; Poland
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Former Yugoslavia; Italy; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: Spain

• naturalized elsewhere

• widely cultivated

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).
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2. [mentions as escape from cult.].
• Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75. ["caprifolia"].
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• USDA, NRCS. United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service's PLANTS database (on-line resource).

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Lonicera caprifolium.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Lonicera caprifolium.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Lonicera caprifolium.

Check other web resources for Lonicera caprifolium L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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