Berberis aquifolium Pursh

Native to:

British Columbia, California, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington

Introduced into:

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Krym, Michigan, Netherlands, Nevada, New South Wales, North European Russia, Norway, Ontario, Poland, Québec, Romania, Sakhalin, South Australia, Spain, Sweden, Tasmania, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vermont, West Himalaya

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• (2021). https://doi.org/10.1556/034.63.2021.3-4.1. epublication.
• (2023). http://www.floramontiberica.org/Bouteloua/Bouteloua_33.pdf. epublication.
• (2023). https://dx.doi.org/10.5209/bocm.79529. epublication.
• (2023). https://moip-bio.msu.ru/wp-content/uploads/koroteeva-bulletin-of-moscow-society-of-naturalists-128-3-2023.63-66.pdf. epublication.
• Flora of North America Editorial Committee (1997). Flora of North America North of Mexico 3: 1-590. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
• Gilman, A.V. (2015). New flora of Vermont. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 110: 1-614.
• Meyers, S.C. & al. (eds.) (2020). Flora of Oregon 2: 1-861. Botanical research institute of Texas Press.
• Urziceanu, M. & al. (2020). Updated list of non-native ornamental plants in Romania. Contributii Botanice Universitatea "Babes-Bolyai" din Cluj-Napoca 55: 59-82.
• Werier, D. (2017). Catalogue of the Vascular plants of New York state. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club 27: 1-542.
• de Salas, MF, Baker, ML (2022). A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 1-161. Tasmanian Herbarium, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart. https://flora.tmag.tas.gov.au/resources/census/.

An alternative taxonomy had been proposed by the following authorities:

• Govaerts, R. (1996). World Checklist of Seed Plants 2(1, 2): 1-492. MIM, Deurne. [Cited as Mahonia aquifolium.]

Kew Backbone Distributions

• (2022). https://moip-bio.msu.ru/en/articles/on-the-record-of-mahonia-aquifolium-pursh-nutt-berberidaceae-in-the-republic-of-karelia/. epublication.
• (2023). https://moip-bio.msu.ru/wp-content/uploads/koroteeva-bulletin-of-moscow-society-of-naturalists-128-3-2023.63-66.pdf. epublication.
• Bhellum, B.L. (2012). Flora exotica of Jammu and Kashmir (List- I). Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany 36: 33-45.
• Gilman, A.V. (2015). New flora of Vermont. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 110: 1-614.
• Jonsell, B. (ed.) (2001). Flora Nordica 2: 1-430. The Bergius Foundaton.
• Korovin, E.P. & Vvedensky, A.I. (eds.) (1953). Flora Uzbekistana 2: 1-547. Izd-va Akademii nauk Uzbekskoi SSR, Tashkent.
• Mirek, Z., Piękoś-Mirkowa, H., Zając, A. & Zając, M (2020). Vascular plants of Poland an annotated checklist: 1-526. W. Szafer institute of botany, Polish academy of sciences, Krakow, Poland.
• Seregin, A.P. (2014). Flora of Vladimir Oblast, Russia: grid data analysis: 1-441. KMK schientific press, Moscow.
• Tutin, T.G. & al. (eds.) (1993). Flora Europaea ed. 2, 1: 1-581. Cambridge University Press.
• Urziceanu, M. & al. (2020). Updated list of non-native ornamental plants in Romania. Contributii Botanice Universitatea "Babes-Bolyai" din Cluj-Napoca 55: 59-82.
• Vladimirov, V., Dane, F. & Kit Tan (eds.) (2013). New floristic records in the Balkans: 23. Phytologia Balcanica 19: 373-399.
• Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2007). Flora of Australia 2: 1-486. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.
• de Salas, MF, Baker, ML (2022). A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 1-161. Tasmanian Herbarium, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart. https://flora.tmag.tas.gov.au/resources/census/.