Boraginaceae

Mertensia Roth

First published in Catal. Bot. 1: 34 (1797), nom. cons.
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Subarctic to N. China and N. Mexico.

Distribution

Native to:

Alabama, Alaska, Alberta, Aleutian Is., Altay, Amur, Arizona, Arkansas, British Columbia, Buryatiya, California, China North-Central, Chita, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Denmark, District of Columbia, Finland, Georgia, Great Britain, Greenland, Iceland, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ireland, Irkutsk, Japan, Kamchatka, Kansas, Kazakhstan, Kentucky, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kuril Is., Labrador, Magadan, Maine, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Northeast, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Mongolia, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Newfoundland, North Carolina, North Dakota, North European Russi, Northwest Territorie, Norway, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ohio, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Primorye, Québec, Sakhalin, Saskatchewan, South Carolina, South Dakota, Svalbard, Sweden, Tennessee, Tuva, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, Yukon

Introduced into:

Czechoslovakia

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6. Scientific Data 8: 215.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Hatschbach, G. [75612], Brazil Casselia K000944191 Yes

Sources

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 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 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0