Taxon: Fumaria officinalis L.

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Common names:

• common fumitory   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• fumitory   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – English
  
• wax-dolls   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• fumeterre officinal   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• erva-molarinha   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• erva-moleirinha   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• fel-da-terra   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• fumária   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• jordrök   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Iraq; Israel; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Western Siberia
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• AUSTRALASIA
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  North America
  United States
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Southern South America: Argentina

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).
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hansen, A. & P. Sunding. 1993. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Howell, C. J. & J. W. D. Sawyer. 2006. New Zealand naturalised vascular plant checklist.
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
• Jalas, J. & J. Suominen. 1972–. Atlas florae europaeae.
• Jonsell, B., ed. 2000. Flora nordica.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Lidén, M. 1986. Synopsis of Fumarioideae with a monograph of the tribe Fumarieae. Opera Bot. 88:82.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, second edition.
• Wagner, W. L. et al. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands (on-line resource).
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina.
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Fumaria officinalis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Fumaria officinalis.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Fumaria officinalis.

Check other web resources for Fumaria officinalis L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• 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
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• 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:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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