Plants of USA and Canada

Scientific or common name:

Sequoia gigantea (Lindl.) Decne.


CUPRESSACEAE Family selection - Cypress family (Gymnosperms - Conifers)

Taxon Page:

Name: Sequoia gigantea (Lindl.) Decne. Taxon selection
Nomencl. ref.: Bull. Soc. Bot. France 1: 70 (-71). 1854 [23 Apr 1854]
Rank: species
See: ► Sequoiadendron giganteum (Lindl.) J. Buchholz

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Common names

US name U.S. name: Giant sequoia

Grown habit: Tree
Duration: Perennial
 

Synonyms:
= Sequoiadendron giganteum (Lindl.) J. Buchholz
= Sequoia wellingtonia Seem.



TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Coniferophyta
Class: Pinopsida
Subclass: -
Order: Pinales
Family: Cupressaceae
Genus: Sequoia
Species:


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Sequoia gigantea
Sequoia gigantea
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Sequoia gigantea
Sequoia gigantea
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Sequoia gigantea
Sequoia gigantea
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Sequoia gigantea
Sequoia gigantea
Picture modified from Gilg, Ernst; Schumann, Karl - Das Pflanzenreich Hausschatz des Wissens (1900) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Sequoia gigantea
Sequoia gigantea
Picture modified from Richard Wettstein - Handbuch der Systematischen Botanik (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled 'GNU Free Documentation License'.

Sequoia gigantea
Sequoia gigantea
Lelend H. May - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image


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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (CA)

Distributional map for Sequoia gigantea (Lindl.) Decne.
Map for Sequoia gigantea (Lindl.) Decne.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA



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More species:
1) Sequoia sempervirens (Lamb. ex D. Don) Endl. [2502]
2) Sequoia wellingtonia Seem. [205]
3) Sequoiadendron giganteum (Lindl.) J. Buchholz [1037]
4) Serapias helleborine L. [253]
5) Serenoa serrulata (Michx.) G. Nicholson [212]
6) Sericocarpus bifoliatus (Walter) Porter [207]
7) Sericotheca discolor (Pursh) Rydb. [184]
8) Seriphidium canum (Pursh) W.A. Weber ssp. bolanderi (A. Gray) W.A. Weber [224]
9) Seriphidium tridentatum (Nutt.) W.A. Weber [176]
10) Serratula arvensis L. [318]

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