Vinca major L.

APOCYNACEAE

- Dogbane family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Vinca major L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 209 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Bigleaf periwinkle

English name: blue periwinkle

English name: greater periwinkle

French name: grande pervenche

Italian name: Pervinca maggiore

German name: großes Immergrün

Grown habit: Vine, Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:
= Vinca major L. var. variegata Louden

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Vinca major L. var. variegata Louden

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Asteridae
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Genus: Vinca
Species:

Page counter: 2490 ( AVG: 221.19 / 219.911 )

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Habit at Kula, 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.

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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'.

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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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Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Padova, Orto Botanico., PD, Veneto, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Credit: Photo by Vito Buono - Bari

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Vinca major
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, Roseto di San Giovanni, TS, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Vinca major
Flowers at Kula, 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.

Vinca major
Credit: Photo by Vito Buono - Bari

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Vinca major
Credit: Photo by Alfonso La Rosa

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Vinca major
Credit: Photo by Franco Giordana

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Steve Hurst - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

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Credit: Photo by Anja Michelucci

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AL, AR, AZ, CA, GA, ID, IL, KY, LA, MA, MD, MS, NC, NM, NY, OH, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA), CAN (BC)

Distributional map for Vinca major L.
Map for Vinca major 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) Vinca major L. var. variegata Louden [179]
2) Vinca minor L. [1217]
3) Vinca rosea L. [262]
4) Viola adunca Sm. [495]
5) Viola adunca Sm. var. adunca [333]
6) Viola affinis Leconte [590]
7) Viola aurea Kellogg ssp. mohavensis M.S. Baker & J.C. Clausen [179]
8) Viola beckwithii Torr. & A. Gray ssp. glabrata M.S. Baker [238]
9) Viola blanda Willd. var. blanda [287]
10) Viola canadensis L. var. rugulosa (Greene) C.L. Hitchc. [377]

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