Tanacetum
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 Tanacetum vulgare
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Tanacetum is a genus of about 70 species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.[citation needed]
Common names include Tansy (Tanacetum vulgare; sometimes called Common Tansy or Garden Tansy) and Feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium); several other species are also known as tansies. Other common names include Bachelor's Buttons, Bitter Buttons, Boerenwormkruid, Buttons, Ginger Plant, Gold-buttons, Ponso, Solucanotu, Tanaceto, Tansy, Yomogi-Giku.[citation needed]
The name tansy is also sometimes given, improperly, (e.g. in the western United States) to ragwort, because in those areas ragwort is known as "tansy ragwort".[citation needed]
Tanacetum species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Bordered Pug, Grey Pug, Lime-speck Pug, Tawny Speckled Pug, Wormwood Pug and the Coleophora case-bearers C. chrysanthemi (feeds exclusively on T. corymbosum), C. tanaceti (feeds exclusively on T. vulgare) and C. trochilella.[citation needed]
[edit] Selected species
Tanacetum abrotanifolium (L.) Druce
Tanacetum achilleifolium (M. Bieb.) Sch. Bip.
Tanacetum argenteum (Lam.) Willd.
Tanacetum atkinsonii (C.B.Clarke) Kitam.
Tanacetum balsamita L.
Tanacetum bipinnatum (L.) Sch. Bip.
Tanacetum camphoratum Less.
Tanacetum cinerariifolium (Trevir.) Sch. Bip.
Tanacetum coccineum (Willd.) Grierson
Tanacetum corymbosum (L.) Sch. Bip.
Tanacetum densum (Labill.) Sch. Bip.
Tanacetum ferulaceum (Sch. Bip.) Walp.
Tanacetum haradjanii (Rech. f.) Grierson
Tanacetum huronense Nutt.
Tanacetum macrophyllum (Waldst. & Kit.) Sch. Bip.
Tanacetum parthenifolium (Willd.) Sch. Bip.
Tanacetum parthenium (L.) Sch. Bip.
Tanacetum poteriifolium (Nordm.) Grierson
Tanacetum praeteritium (Horw.) Heywood
Tanacetum ptarmiciflorum (Webb) Sch. Bip.
Tanacetum vulgare L.
Sources: E+M[2] NRCS,[5] GRIN[4]
[edit] References
- ^ "Tanacetum" (HTML). Index Nominum Genericorum. International Association for Plant Taxonomy. 1996-02-09. http://botany.si.edu/ing/INGsearch.cfm?searchword=Tanacetum. Retrieved on 2008-06-27.
- ^ a b Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem. "Details for: Tanacetum" (HTML). Euro+Med PlantBase. Freie Universität Berlin. http://ww2.bgbm.org/EuroPlusMed/PTaxonDetail.asp?NameId=117419&PTRefFk=7000000. Retrieved on 2008-06-28.
- ^ International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI). "Plant Name Search Results" (HTML). International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=98394-3. Retrieved on 2008-06-28.
- ^ a b Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) (1998-04-28). "Genus: Tanacetum L." (HTML). Taxonomy for Plants. USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program, National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?11863. Retrieved on 2008-06-28.
- ^ "Tanacetum". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=TANAC. Retrieved on 2008-06-28.
[edit] External links
Media related to Tanacetum at Wikimedia Commons
Information related to Tanacetum from Wikispecies.
