Ligusticum scothicum

Ligusticum scothicum, Cramond Island, Edinburgh, Scotland

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Apiales 
Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Cladus: Campanulids
Ordo: Apiales

Familia: Apiaceae
Subfamilia: Apioideae
Tribus: Scandiceae
Genus: Ligusticum
Species:
Subspecies: L. s. subsp. hultenii – L. s. subsp. scothicum

Name

Ligusticum scothicum L., Sp. Pl. 1: 250. (1753)

Synonyms

  • Homotypic
    • Ligusticum scoticum L., (1759, orth. var.; very widely accepted, but not apparently a legitimate correction under ICN Art.60, as Species Plantarum has priority unless there is good reason to reject.)
    • Angelica scothica (L.) Lam., Encycl. 1: 173 (1783)
    • Haloscias scothicum (L.) Fr., Summa Veg. Scand.: 180 (1845)
    • Meum scothicum (L.) Baill., Hist. Pl. 7: 191 (1879)

Distribution

Native distribution areas:
  • Continental: Europe
      • England, Scotland, Denmark, Faeroe Isl., Ireland (incl. Northern Ireland), Iceland, Norway, N-European Russia, Sweden
  • Continental: Asia-Temperate
      • Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu), Russian Far East (S-Kuril Isl., Kamchatka, Ussuri, Sakhalin, Okhotsk), North Korea, South Korea
  • Continental: Northern America
      • USA (Alaska, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island), Canada (British Columbia, Labrador, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Prince Edward Isl., Quebec), Greenland, St. Pierre et Miquelon

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Vernacular names

  • dansk: Skotsk Lostilk
  • Deutsch: Schottischer Liebstöckel
  • English: Scots Lovage
  • suomi: Merirantaputki
  • Na Vosa Vakaviti: Sikote lovage
  • français: Livêche d'Écosse
  • Gaeilge: Sunais
  • íslenska: Sæhvönn
  • norsk nynorsk: Strandkjeks
  • norsk: Strandkjeks
  • русский: Лигустикум шотландский
  • svenska: Strandloka
  • 中文: 苏格兰藁本
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