Taxon: Vernonia gigantea (Walter) Trel. ex Branner & Coville

Genus:

Vernonia

Family:

Asteraceae (alt.Compositae)

Subfamily:

Cichorioideae

Tribe:

Vernonieae

Subtribe:

Vernoniinae

Nomen number:

104618

Place of publication:

Rep. Geol. Surv. Arkansas 1888(4):189. 1891

Link to protologue:

Typification:

Name Verified on:

22-may-2008 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 22-may-2008

Species priority site is:

North Central Regional PI Station (NC7)

Accessions:

0 in National Plant Germplasm System

Synonyms:

Basionym: Chrysocoma gigantea Walter
(=) Vernonia altissima Nutt.

Common names:

tall ironweed (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
hohe Scheinaster (Source: Zander ed17) - German

Economic Importance:

Weed: potential seed contaminant (fide N Amer fl ser. 2, 10:184. 1978)

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

EASTERN CANADA: Canada [Ontario (s.e.)]
NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia]
NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma]
SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee (http://tenn.bio.utk.edu/vascular/database/vascular-database.asp?CategoryID=Dicots&FamilyID=Asteraceae&GenusID=Vernonia&SpeciesID=gigantea), Virginia]
SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas]

References:

Erhardt, W. et al. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. 2002 (Zander ed17)
FNA Editorial Committee Flora of North America. 1993- (F NAmer)
Jones, S. B. & W. Z. Faust 1978. Vernonieae (N Amer fl) ser. 2, 10:183-184.

Check other web resources for Vernonia gigantea (Walter) Trel. ex Branner & Coville :

Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
BONAP North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program:
TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://germoplasma.iniaf.gob.bo/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=104618. Accessed 24 junio 2024.