Taxon: Catalpa speciosa (Warder) Engelm.

Common names:

• catawba   (Source: Trees US ) – English
  
• cigartree   (Source: Trees US ) – English
  
• Indian-bean   (Source: Trees US ) – English
  
• northern catalpa   (Source: Trees US ) – English
  
• western catalpa   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• prächtiger Trompetenbaum   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental; shade/shelter   (fide Dict Gard; Hortus 3)
  

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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)
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Indiana [s.w.]
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  United States [n. & e.]

References:

• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas. (F Tex)
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. (Zander ed17)
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. (Glea Cron)
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976). (Krussmann)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541. (Trees US)
• Paclt, J. 1952. Synopsis of the genus Catalpa (Bignoniaceae). Candollea 13:267–268.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehder, A. 1949. Bibliography of cultivated trees and shrubs. (Rehder)
• Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri. (F Missouri)
• Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands. (F Okin)
• Webster's third new international dictionary. (Websters Dict)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Catalpa speciosa.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Catalpa speciosa. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Catalpa bignonioides var. speciosa Warder (basionym)
  

Check other databases for Catalpa speciosa (Warder) Engelm.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• 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 for Catalpa speciosa 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

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

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• 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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