Linnaea borealis L.
CAPRIFOLIACEAE
- Honeysuckle family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)
Taxon Page:
Name: Linnaea borealis L.
Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 631 (1753)
Rank: species
Images of Linnaea borealis
Common names
U.S.
name:
Twinflower
English name: American twin-flower English name: twinflower
Italian name: Linnea boreale
Grown habit: Forb/herb, Subshrub
Duration: Perennial
Synonyms:
Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Linnaea borealis L. ssp. americana (Forbes) Hultén ex R.T. Clausen
2) Linnaea borealis L. ssp. borealis
3) Linnaea borealis L. ssp. longiflora (Torr.) Hultén
4) Linnaea borealis L. var. americana (Forbes) Rehder
5) Linnaea borealis L. var. longiflora Torr.
TAXONOMY
Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Asteridae
Order: Dipsacales
Family: Caprifoliaceae
Genus: Linnaea
Species:
Page counter: 1288 ( AVG: 221 / 219.716 )
Gallery:
Linnaea borealis
Credit: Photo by Patrizia Ferrari
Linnaea borealis
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".
Linnaea borealis
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.
Linnaea borealis
Credit: Photo by Pierfranco Arrigoni - Valmadrera (LC)
Linnaea borealis
Credit: Photo by Patrizia Ferrari
Linnaea borealis
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.
Linnaea borealis
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'.
Linnaea borealis
Hippolyte Coste - Flore descriptive et illustrée de la
France, de la Corse et des contrées limitrophes, 1901-1906 - This image is in
public domain because its copyright has expired.
Linnaea borealis
Otto Wilhelm Thomé: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (1885) - 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".
Linnaea borealis
Credit: Photo by Pierfranco Arrigoni - Valmadrera (LC)
Linnaea borealis
Jacob Sturm, Johann Georg Sturm - Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen (1796). - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.
Linnaea borealis
Picture modified from Graebner, Paul - Taschenbuch zum Pflanzenbestimmen (1918) - 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.
Linnaea borealis
Credit: Photo by Patrizia Ferrari
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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, AZ, CA, CO, CT, IA, ID, IL, IN, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MT, ND, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, SD, TN, UT, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY), CAN (AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS, NT, NU, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT), DEN (GL), FRA (SPM)
Map for Linnaea borealis L.
(*) 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) Linnaea borealis L. ssp. americana (Forbes) Hultén ex R.T. Clausen [313]
2) Linnaea borealis L. ssp. borealis [255]
3) Linum adenophyllum A. Gray [273]
4) Linum angustifolium Huds. [313]
5) Linum aristatum Engelm. [258]
6) Linum australe A. Heller var. australe [301]
7) Linum berlandieri Hook. var. berlandieri [261]
8) Linum californicum Benth. var. confertum A. Gray ex Trel. [177]
9) Linum clevelandii Greene [164]
10) Linum gallicum L. [169]
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