Taxon: Epipactis gigantea Douglas

• authorship verified from original literature
• both the name and its validating diagnosis were simultaneously ascribed to Douglas, so he is the author of the name (see Vienna ICBN Art. 46, Ex. 14)

Species on the following lists:

• CITES Appendix II
  
• Check conservation status and distribution in NatureServe Explorer database

Common names:

• chatterbox   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• giant helleborine   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• stream orchid   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• storknipprot   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• 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)
  Western Canada: Canada - British Columbia [s.]
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Oklahoma [s.], South Dakota [s.w.]
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming [w.]
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Norte, Baja Sur

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).
• CITES. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Appendices I, II and III (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Epipactis gigantea.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Epipactis gigantea.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Epipactis gigantea.

Check other web resources for Epipactis gigantea Douglas:

• 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
• 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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