Corispermum americanum

Corispermum americanum

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Caryophyllales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Ordo: Caryophyllales

Familia: Amaranthaceae s.l.
Cladus: Chenopodiaceae s.str.
Subfamilia: Corispermoideae
Tribus: Corispermeae
Genus: Corispermum
Species: Corispermum americanum

Varietates: C. a. var. americanum – C. a. var. rydbergii

Name

Corispermum americanum (Nutt.) Nutt., Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. ser. 2, 5: 165. (1835), as "Corispernum"

Synonyms

• Basionym
  • Corispermum hyssopifolium var. americanum Nutt., Gen. N. Amer. Pl. [Nuttall]. 1: 4. (1818)
    • Type: United States: "On the sandy alluvions of the Missouri". T. Nuttall #s.n. Type: BM001010658, Isotypes: KW000114798
• Heterotypic (ref. Mosyakin 2008 in Fl. N. America, Hassler 2018)
  • Corispermum imbricatum A. Nelson, New Man. Bot. Centr. Rocky Mts. 164. (1909)
    • Type?: RM0002244
  • Corispermum marginale Rydb., Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 30: 247. (1903)
    • Type: Albuquerque, 1884, C.L. Herrick s.n. Holotype: NY.
  • Corispermum simplicissimum Lunell, Amer. Midl. Naturalist 1: 207. (1910)
    • Type: North Dakota, shore of a lake several miles SE of Barton, Pierce Co., 26. Aug. 1980, Lunell No. 112. Holotype: MIN1000711

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Northern America Western Canada Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan Eastern Canada Ontario, Quebec Northwestern U.S.A. Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming North-Central U.S.A. Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin Northeastern U.S.A. Indiana, New Jersey, New York, Ohio Southwestern U.S.A. Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah South-Central U.S.A. New Mexico, Texas Southeastern U.S.A. Arkansas Mexico Mexico Northeast (Chihuahua) References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Coulter, J.M. & Nelson, A. 1909. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains. (Vascular plants). New York / Cincinnati / Chicago. BHL Reference page. 
• Lunell, J. 1910. New Plants from North Dakota. I, II. American Midland Naturalist 1: 204–208, 233–238. BHL Reference page. 
• Nuttall, T. 1818. The genera of North American plants, and a catalogue of the species, to the year 1817. Volume 1. viii + 312 pp, D. Heartt, Philadelphia. BHL Reference page. 
• Nuttall, T. 1835. Collections towards a Flora of the Territory of Arkansas. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, new series 5: 139–203. BHL Reference page. 
• Rydberg, P.A. 1903. Studies on the Rocky Mountain Flora – X. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 30(4): 247–262. JSTOR BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Mosyakin, S.L.
• eFloras 2008. Corispermum americanum in Flora of North America. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.

Links

• Hassler, M. 2018. Corispermum americanum. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2018. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2018 Dec. 10. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2016. Corispermum americanum. Published online. Accessed: Feb. 22 2016.
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2024. Corispermum americanum in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2024 Jan. 14. Reference page. 
• Tropicos.org 2016. Corispermum americanum. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 22 Feb. 2016.

Vernacular names

English: American bugseed

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