Asparagus officinalis L.

ASPARAGACEAE

- Asparagus family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Asparagus officinalis L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 313 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Garden asparagus

English name: asparagus

English name: garden asparagus

Spanish name: esparraguera

French name: asperge

Italian name: Asparago comune

German name: Spargel

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:
= Asparagus officinalis L. ssp. officinalis

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Asparagus officinalis L. ssp. officinalis

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: -
Superdivision: -
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: -
Order: Asparagales
Family: Asparagaceae
Genus: Asparagus
Species:

Page counter: 4531 ( AVG: 240.55 / 323.486 )

Gallery:

Asparagus officinalis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Venezia, Isola di Torcello, lungo il sentiero che conduce alla basilica., VE, Veneto, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Asparagus officinalis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Località Porto Tolle, lungo la strada comunale., RO, Veneto, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Asparagus officinalis
Credit: Photo by Franco Giordana

Asparagus officinalis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Duino Aurisina, località Villaggio del Pescatore, prato ruderalizzato nei pressi del porticciolo a nord dell'abitato., TS, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Asparagus officinalis
Jan Kops et al. - Flora Batava - 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".

Asparagus officinalis
Credit: Photo by Franco Giordana

Asparagus officinalis
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani

Asparagus officinalis
Inflorescences at Wailuku, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Asparagus officinalis
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

Asparagus officinalis
Credit: Photo by Graziano Propetto

Asparagus officinalis
Credit: Photo by Franco Giordana

Asparagus officinalis
Jose Hernandez - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

Asparagus officinalis
Credit: Photo by Graziano Propetto

Asparagus officinalis
Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrations of the British Flora (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".

Asparagus officinalis
Habit at Wailuku, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Asparagus officinalis
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani

Asparagus officinalis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Cividale del Friuli, riva destra del Natisone nei pressi dell'abitato, nella direzione di Sanguarzo.., UD, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Asparagus officinalis
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

Asparagus officinalis
Picture modified from Bley, Franz - Botanisches Bilderbuch (1897/98) - 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.

Asparagus officinalis
Robert H. Mohlenbrock USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. 1992. Western wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species. West Region, Sacramento. - Not copyrighted image

Asparagus officinalis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Asparagus officinalis
White variety at Foodland Pukalani, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Asparagus officinalis
Credit: Photo by Graziano Propetto

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY), CAN (AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS, ON, PE, QC, SK), FRA (SPM)

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(*) 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) Asparagus officinalis L. ssp. officinalis [236]
2) Asparagus plumosus Baker [293]
3) Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop [3334]
4) Asperella ajanensis V. Vassil. [293]
5) Asperula arvensis L. [998]
6) Asperula odorata L. [444]
7) Asphodelus tenuifolius Cav. [281]
8) Asplenium adiantum-nigrum L. [2952]
9) Asplenium montanum Willd. [460]
10) Asplenium trichomanes L. ssp. densum (Brack.) W.H. Wagner [1971]

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