Orobanchaceae
Euphrasia

Euphrasia × vernalis List

First published in Pl. Lithuan.: 5 (1837)
This hybrid is accepted
The native range of this hybrid is N. & Central Europe to Mongolia. It is a hemiparasitic annual and grows primarily in the temperate biome. The hybrid formula is E. officinalis subsp. rostkoviana × E. stricta.

Distribution

Native to:

Altay, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Central European Rus, Czechoslovakia, East European Russia, France, Iceland, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Poland, South European Russi, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, West Siberia

Introduced into:

Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New York, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Prince Edward I., Québec, Rhode I., Vermont, Wisconsin

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. (2001). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS E-F: 1-50919.

An alternative taxonomy had been proposed by the following authorities:

  • Mirek, Z., Piękoś-Mirkowa, H., Zając, A. & Zając, M (2020). Vascular plants of Poland an annotated checklist: 1-526. W. Szafer institute of botany, Polish academy of sciences, Krakow, Poland. [Cited as Euphrasia brevipila.]
  • Peregrym, O.M. (2010). A taxonomic overview of the genus Euphrasia L. (Orobanchaceae) in Ukraine. Ukrayins'kyi Botanicnyi Zhurnal 67: 248-260. [Cited as Euphrasia brevipila subsp. tenuis.]

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2019). Flora of North America North of Mexico 17: 1-737. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
  • Kosachev, P.A. (2010). Synopsis of the families Scrophulariaceae Juss. and Pediculariaceae Juss. of Altai mountain country. Turczaninowia 13(1): 19-102.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Murbeck, S. [s.n.] Sweden Euphrasia arctica subsp. tenuis K000806871 Unknown Type Material Yes
Milne-Redhead, E. [5910] United Kingdom Euphrasia × brevipila K:SPC-02559.000 No
Ireland Euphrasia × brevipila K:SPC-07209.000 No

Sources

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images