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Taxon: Fritillaria meleagris L.

Genus: Fritillaria
Family: Liliaceae subfamily: Lilioideae tribe: Lilieae.
Nomen number: 70868
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:304. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 19-May-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 13-May-2009
Species priority site is: Ornamental Plant Germplasm Center (OPGC).

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

Common names:

  • chequered-lily   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  • fritillary   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  • Guinea-hen-flower   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  • snakehead fritillary   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  • oeuf de vanneau   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – French
  • gewöhnliche Schachblume   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – German
  • Kiebitzei   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – German

Economic importance:

  • Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Man HerPl)
  • Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury)
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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • EUROPE
    Northern Europe: United Kingdom
    Middle Europe: Austria; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
    East Europe: Belarus; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine
    Southeastern Europe: Former Yugoslavia; Italy; Romania
    Southwestern Europe: France

References:

  • Botanical Society of the British Isles. 2007. BSBI checklist. (BSBI)
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
  • Erhardt, W. et al. 2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage. (Zander ed16)
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
  • Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
  • Stace, C. 1995. New flora of the British Isles. (F BritStace)
  • Still, S. M. 1994. Manual of herbaceous ornamental plants, ed. 4. (Man HerbPl)
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
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Check other databases for Fritillaria meleagris L.:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • 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.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

  • PlantSystematics.org
  • Google 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.

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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?70868 (09 February 2010)

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