Taxon:
Aralia racemosa L.
Summary
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:273. 1753
Verified:
02/11/2012
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
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Common names
English
American-spikenard – Indianroot – life-of-man – old-man's-root – petty-morel – small-spikenard – spiceberry – spignet – German
amerikanische Aralie – Swedish
lundaralia –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Northern America | Eastern Canada | Canada | New Brunswick | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Eastern Canada | Canada | Nova Scotia | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Eastern Canada | Canada | Ontario | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Eastern Canada | Canada | Prince Edward Island | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Eastern Canada | Canada | Québec | |
1 | Native | Northern America | North-Central U.S.A. | United States | Illinois | |
1 | Native | Northern America | North-Central U.S.A. | United States | Kansas | n.e. |
1 | Native | Northern America | North-Central U.S.A. | United States | Minnesota | |
1 | Native | Northern America | North-Central U.S.A. | United States | Missouri | |
1 | Native | Northern America | North-Central U.S.A. | United States | Nebraska | e. & n.-c. |
1 | Native | Northern America | North-Central U.S.A. | United States | South Dakota | e. |
1 | Native | Northern America | North-Central U.S.A. | United States | Wisconsin | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | Connecticut | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | Indiana | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | Maine | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | Massachusetts | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | Michigan | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | New Hampshire | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | New Jersey | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | New York | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | Ohio | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | Pennsylvania | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | Rhode Island | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | Vermont | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | West Virginia | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | Alabama | n. |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | Arkansas | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | Delaware | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | Georgia | n. |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | Kentucky | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | Maryland | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | Mississippi | n. |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | North Carolina | w. |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | South Carolina | w. |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | Tennessee | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | Virginia | |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | also cult. |
Native
Northern America
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EASTERN CANADA:
Canada [Québec, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick]
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NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.:
United States [Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia]
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NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.:
United States [Illinois, Kansas (n.e.), Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska (e. & n.-c.), South Dakota (e.), Wisconsin]
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SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.:
United States [Alabama (n.), Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia (n.), Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi (n.), North Carolina (w.), South Carolina (w.), Tennessee, Virginia]
Cultivated
(also cult.)
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Environmental | ornamental | | Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening |
Food additives | flavoring | used to flavor root beer fide F GPlains; F Missouri | Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri. |
Medicines | folklore | fide TreesS Mex; F GPlains; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2 | McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland. |