Taxon: Balsamorhiza sagittata (Pursh) Nutt.

Common names:

• arrowleaf balsamroot   (Source: F Utah ed2 ) – English
  
• balsamrot   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• 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)
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta [w.], British Columbia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - South Dakota [w.]
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona [n.], California [n. & c.], Nevada, Utah

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).
• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
• Moss, E. H. & J. G. Packer. 1983. Flora of Alberta, ed. 2.
• Peacock, S. L. 2008. From complex to simple: balsamroot, inulin, and the chemistry of traditional interior Salish pi-cooking technology. Canad. J. Bot. 86:116–128.
• Welsh, S. L. et al. 1993. A Utah flora.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Balsamorhiza sagittata.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Balsamorhiza sagittata.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Balsamorhiza sagittata.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Buphthalmum sagittatum Pursh (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Balsamorhiza sagittata (Pursh) Nutt.:

• 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.
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• Fruits: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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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