Apiaceae

Eryngium Tourn. ex L.

First published in Sp. Pl.: 233 (1753)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Temp. Eurasia, N. Africa, São Tome, Maluku to New Zealand, America.

Distribution

Native to:

Afghanistan, Alabama, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Austria, Baleares, Baltic States, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Bulgaria, California, Central European Russia, Chile Central, Chile North, Chile South, Colombia, Corse, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechia-Slovakia, Delaware, Denmark, District of Columbia, Dominican Republic, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Florida, France, French Guiana, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Jawa, Juan Fernández Is., Kansas, Kazakhstan, Kentucky, Kirgizstan, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Leeward Is., Libya, Louisiana, Maluku, Maryland, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Mongolia, Montana, Morocco, Nebraska, Netherlands, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New South Wales, New York, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Nicaragua, North Carolina, North Caucasus, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pakistan, Palestine, Panamá, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Romania, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, South Australia, South Carolina, South European Russia, Southwest Caribbean, Spain, Sumatera, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Tasmania, Tennessee, Texas, Transcaucasus, Trinidad-Tobago, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Victoria, Virginia, Washington, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Western Australia, Windward Is., Wisconsin, Xinjiang

Introduced into:

Alberta, Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, British Columbia, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canary Is., Central American Pacific Is., China South-Central, China Southeast, Colorado, Connecticut, DR Congo, East Himalaya, Fiji, Finland, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Hawaii, India, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Laos, Liberia, Malaya, Manitoba, Massachusetts, Myanmar, Nepal, Newfoundland, Nicobar Is., Northwest European Russia, Ontario, Primorye, Québec, Saskatchewan, Sierra Leone, South Dakota, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Uganda, Vanuatu, Vermont, Vietnam, Yakutiya

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. (2001). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS Genera starting with letter E-F: 1-50919.
  • Stalažs, A. (2024). List of vascular plants of Latvia (with Latvian names): 1-312. Dobele.
  • Wörz, A. (2011). Revision of Eryngium L. (Apiaceae-Saniculoideae): General part and Palaearctic species. Bibliotheca Botanica 159: 1-498.

Flora of Iraq

  • Linnaeus, Gen. Pl. ed. 5: 108 (1754);
  • Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. ed. 1: 232 (1753);
  • Wolff in Pflanzenr. IV. 228, 61: 106–271 (1913)

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • —F.T.A. 3: 6.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • H. Wolff in E.P. IV. 228, heft 61: 106–271 (1913)
  • L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 108 (1754)
  • Sp. Pl.: 232 (1753)

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • EBC Common Names

    • Common Names from Kew's Economic Botany Collection https://www.kew.org/science/collections-and-resources/collections/economic-botany-collection

  • Flora of Iraq

    • Ghazanfar, S. A., Edmondson, J. R. (Eds). (2013-2019). Flora of Iraq, Volumes 5.1, 5.2 and 6.0. Kew Publishing
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Neotropikey

    • Milliken, W., Klitgard, B. and Baracat, A. (2009 onwards), Neotropikey - Interactive key and information resources for flowering plants of the Neotropics.
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0