Taxon: Catalpa bignonioides Walter

Common names:

• catawba   (Source: Trees US ) – English
  
• cigartree   (Source: Trees US ) – English
  
• common catalpa   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• Indian-bean   (Source: Trees US ) – English
  
• Indian-bean-tree   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• smoking-bean   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• southern catalpa   (Source: Trees US ) – English
  
• catalpa commun   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – French
  
• catalpa de la Caroline   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – French
  
• gewöhnlicher Trompetenbaum   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• katalpa   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Zander ed13)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Florida, Georgia [s.], Louisiana, Mississippi

• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Italy
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Ontario [s.e.]
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont [s.]
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas [e.], Nebraska, North Dakota [Cass Co.]
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Arkansas, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas

• also 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).
• Brown, R. G. & M. L. Brown. 1972. Woody plants of Maryland.
• Chester, E. W. et al. 1993–1997. Atlas of Tennessee vascular plants.
• Clark, R. C. 1971. The woody plants of Alabama. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 58:234.
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas.
• Deam, C. C. 1940. Flora of Indiana.
• Eilers, L. J. & D. M. Roosa. 1994. The vascular plants of Iowa.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
• 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.
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Jones, R. L. 2005. Plant life of Kentucky: an illustrated guide to the vascular flora.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541.
• Magee, D. W. & H. E. Ahles. 1999. Flora of the Northeast. A manual of the vascular flora of New England and adjacent New York.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains. [mentions].
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Mitchell, R. S., ed. 1986. A checklist of New York state plants. New York State Mus. Bull. 458.
• Mohlenbrock, R. H. & D. M. Ladd. 1978. Distribution of Illinois vascular plants.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Ohio Flora Committee (E. L. Braun, T. S. Cooperrider, T. R. Fisher, J. J. Furlow). 1967–. The vascular flora of Ohio.
• Paclt, J. 1952. Synopsis of the genus Catalpa (Bignoniaceae). Candollea 13:257–263.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Rehder, A. 1949. Bibliography of cultivated trees and shrubs.
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
• Smith, E. B. 1978. An atlas and annotated list of the vascular plants of Arkansas.
• Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1948–. Flora malesiana.
• Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri.
• Strausbaugh, T. D. & E. L. Core. 1978. Flora of West Virginia, ed. 2.
• Turner, B. L. et al. 2003. Atlas of the vascular plants of Texas. Sida Botanical Miscellany no. 24.
• Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan flora. [mentions].
• Weakley, A. S. 2011. Flora of the southern and middle Atlantic states.
• Wherry, E. T. et al. 1979. Atlas of the flora of Pennsylvania.
• Yatskievych, G. 1999–. Steyermark's Flora of Missouri, revised edition.

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Synonyms:

• (=) Bignonia triloba T. Freeman & Custis
  
• (=) Catalpa bignonioides f. aurea Bureau
  
• (≡) Catalpa syringifolia Sims
  

Check other web resources for Catalpa bignonioides Walter:

• 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
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Catalpa bignonioides cultivars
• 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:

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

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• 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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