Myrica gale L.

MYRICACEAE

- Bayberry family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Myrica gale L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl. 2: 1024. 1753 [1 May 1753]
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Sweetgale

English name: bog-myrtle

English name: meadow-fern

French name: myrique baumier

German name: Gagelstrauch

Grown habit: Shrub
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:
= Gale palustris A. Chev.
= Myrica gale L. var. subarctica Rouss.
= Myrica gale L. var. subglabra (A. Chev) Fernald
= Myrica gale L. var. tomentosa C. DC.

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Myrica gale L. var. subarctica Rouss.
2) Myrica gale L. var. subglabra (A. Chev) Fernald
3) Myrica gale L. var. tomentosa C. DC.

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Hamamelididae
Order: Myricales
Family: Myricaceae
Genus: Myrica
Species:

Page counter: 1209 ( AVG: 221.45 / 290.228 )

Gallery:

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Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Berlin, Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Germania, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Myrica gale
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

Myrica gale
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".

Myrica gale
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 1: 584.

Myrica gale
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".

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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".

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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.

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, CT, KY, MA, ME, MI, MN, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OR, PA, RI, TN, VT, WA, WI), CAN (AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS, NT, NU, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT), FRA (SPM)

Distributional map for Myrica gale L.
Map for Myrica gale 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) Myrica gale L. var. subglabra (A. Chev) Fernald [146]
2) Myrica gale L. var. tomentosa C. DC. [141]
3) Myrica heterophylla Raf. [146]
4) Myrica holdridgeana Lundell [147]
5) Myrica pensylvanica Mirb. [158]
6) Myrica x macfarlanei Youngken [91]
7) Myriophyllum alterniflorum DC. var. americanum Pugsley [147]
8) Myriophyllum exalbescens Fernald var. magdalenense (Fernald) A. Löve [146]
9) Myriophyllum scabratum Michx. [162]
10) Myriophyllum verticillatum L. var. cheneyi Fassett [146]

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