Valeriana officinalis L.

CAPRIFOLIACEAE

- Honeysuckle family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Valeriana officinalis L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 31 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Garden valerian

English name: common valerian

English name: garden-heliotrope

French name: valériane officinale

Italian name: Valeriana comune

German name: echter Arznei-Baldrian

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial

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TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Asteridae
Order: Dipsacales
Family: Caprifoliaceae
Genus: Valeriana
Species:

Page counter: 1828 ( AVG: 221.6 / 290.42 )

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Valeriana officinalis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Doberdò del Lago, ai margine della strada che costeggia la palude a mezzogiorno. , GO, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Valeriana 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.

Valeriana officinalis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Vienna, Hortus Botanicus Vindobonensis, Orto botanico dell'Università di Vienna., Austria, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Valeriana officinalis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Doberdò del Lago, al margine della strada che costeggia la palude a mezzogiorno, GO, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Valeriana officinalis
C. Hoffmann - Botanischer Bilder-Atlas (1884) - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

Valeriana officinalis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, centro città, Civico Orto Botanico, TS, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Valeriana officinalis
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'.

Valeriana officinalis
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

Valeriana 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

Valeriana 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".

Valeriana officinalis
Credit: Photo by Daniela Longo

Valeriana officinalis
Credit: Photo by Antonino Messina

Valeriana officinalis
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.

Valeriana officinalis
Credit: Photo by Daniela Longo

Valeriana officinalis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Orto Botanico dell'Università di Ferrara, FE, Emilia-Romagna, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Valeriana officinalis
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.

Valeriana 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".

Valeriana officinalis
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (CT, IA, ID, IL, IN, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MT, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, VT, WA, WI, WV), CAN (BC, MB, NB, NF, NS, ON, PE, QC)

Distributional map for Valeriana officinalis L.
Map for Valeriana officinalis 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) Valeriana ovata Rydb. [150]
2) Valeriana pauciflora Michx. [299]
3) Valeriana puberulenta Rydb. [170]
4) Valeriana scandens L. [300]
5) Valeriana sitchensis Bong. ssp. scouleri (Rydb.) F.G. Mey. [89]
6) Valeriana sitchensis Bong. var. scouleri (Rydb.) M.E. Jones [180]
7) Valerianella carinata Loisel. [531]
8) Valerianella olitoria (L.) Pollich [249]
9) Valerianella stenocarpa (Engelm. ex A. Gray) Krok var. parviflora Dyal [212]
10) Vallisneria spiralis auct. non L. [229]

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