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Taxon:  Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn



Summary
Genus:
Pteridium
Nomen number:
312948
Place of publication:
O. Kersten, Reis. Ost-Afr. 3(3):11. 1879
Verified:
10/16/1987 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
1 (1  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn var. latiusculum (Desv.) Underw. ex A. Heller (0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Pteris aquilina L.

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Reference(s)
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    • based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
    • http://www.skud.info
  2. Allan, H. H. B. et al. Flora of New Zealand. 1961- http://floraseries.landcareresearch.co.nz/pages/index.aspx
  3. Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning. 1998 Note: poisonous
  4. Davis, P. H., ed. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. 1965-1988
  5. Exell, A. W. et al., eds. Flora zambesiaca. 1960- http://www.kew.org/efloras/namesearch.do
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  13. Kingsbury, J. M. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. 1964 Note: poisonous
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Common names
English
bracken –
bracken fern –
brake –
northern bracken fern –
French
fougère des aigles –
Swedish
örnbräken –
Transcribed Korean
gosari –
Distribution
Native
Africa
  • EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
  • MACARONESIA: Spain [Canary Islands], Portugal [Azores, Madeira Islands]
  • NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ethiopia, Sudan
  • NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria, Morocco
  • SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Angola, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  • SOUTHERN AFRICA: Lesotho, Eswatini, South Africa
  • WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Liberia, Sierra Leone
  • WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Cameroon, Zaire
  • WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN: Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion
Asia-Temperate
  • ARABIAN PENINSULA: Yemen
  • CHINA: China
  • EASTERN ASIA: Japan [Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Ryukyu Islands, Shikoku], Korea, South, Korea, North, Taiwan
  • MONGOLIA: Mongolia
  • RUSSIAN FAR EAST: Russian Federation [Amur, Kamchatka, Primorye, Sakhalin]
  • SIBERIA: Russian Federation [Buryatia, Gorno-Altay, Tuva, Yakutia-Sakha, Altay, Krasnoyarsk, Chita, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Kurgan, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk, Tyumen]
  • WESTERN ASIA: Turkey
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, Sri Lanka
  • INDO-CHINA: Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
  • MALESIA: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea
Europe
  • EAST EUROPE: Russian Federation-European part [European part], Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova
  • MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia
  • NORTHERN EUROPE: Denmark, Finland, United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway, Sweden
  • SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece (incl. Crete), Croatia, Italy (incl. Sardinia, Sicily), North Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia
  • SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: Spain (incl. Baleares), France (incl. Corsica), Portugal
Northern America
  • EASTERN CANADA: Canada [New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec], St. Pierre and Miquelon
  • NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin]
  • NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia]
  • NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Baja Norte, Baja Sur]
  • NORTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming]
  • SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [New Mexico, Texas]
  • SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee (http://tenn.bio.utk.edu/vascular/database/vascular-database.asp?CategoryID=Pteridophytes&FamilyID=Dennstaedtiaceae&GenusID=Pteridium&SpeciesID=aquilinum%20var.%20latiusculum)]
  • SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Aguascalientes, Chiapas, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Veracruz, Federal District]
  • SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah]
  • SUBARCTIC AMERICA: United States [Alaska]
  • WESTERN CANADA: Canada [Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba]
Economic Uses
Human food
Medicines
folklore (fide Herbs Commerce ed2) –
Vertebrate poisons
mammals (fide Kingsbury; Kellerman et al.; Lampe & McCann; Cooper & Johnson ed2) –
Weed
(fide Atlas WWeed) –


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