Taxon:
Rheum rhabarbarum L.
Summary
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:372. 1753
Comment:
- [parentage unknown]
- non Rheum rhabarbarum auct E. Asian (= R. undulatum L.)
Verified:
05/15/2012
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Allan, H. H. B. et al. Flora of New Zealand. 1961- http://floraseries.landcareresearch.co.nz/pages/index.aspx
- Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning. 1998 Note: poisonous
- Demilly, D. et al. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7. 2001 Note: GEVES-SNES, Beaucouzé, France
- FNA Editorial Committee. Flora of North America. 1993- http://floranorthamerica.org/
- Galasso, G. 2011. Review of Polygonaceae data for World Economic Plants, ed. 2. pers. comm.
- Hoang, H.-D. et al. 1997. Additional notes to the checklist of Korean cultivated plants (5). Consolidated summary and indexes. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 44:370. http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/10722
- Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992 Note: = R. ×cultorum
- International Seed Testing Association. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2. 1982
- Jonsell, B. & C. E. Jarvis. 1994. Lectotypifications of Linnaean names for Flora Nordica Vol. 1 (Lycopodiaceae - Papaveraceae). Nordic J. Bot. 14:145-164. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291756-1051/issues
- Jonsell, B., ed. Flora nordica. 2000
- Kartesz, J. T. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. 1994
- Kellerman, T. S. et al. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa. 1988 Note: poisonous
- Kingsbury, J. M. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. 1964 Note: poisonous
- Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants. 1985 Note: poisonous
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. Hortus third. 1976
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. 1998
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- Stace, C. New flora of the British Isles. 1995
Common names
English
garden rhubarb – pieplant – rhubarb – French
rhubarbe – German
österreichischer Rhabarber – krauser Rhabarber – Italian
rabarbaro – rabarbaro commune – Portuguese
ruibarbo – Spanish
ruibarbo – wineplant – Swedish
rabarber – Transcribed Korean
daehwang –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | only cult. |
Cultivated
(only cult.)
Economic Uses
Human food
Vertebrate poisons
mammals (fide Cooper & Johnson ed2; Lampe & McCann; Kingsbury, as R. rhaponticum; Kellerman et al., as R. rhaponticum; Can Poison Pl, as R. rhaponticum) –