Zigadenus
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Zigadenus

Osceola's plume
camas
crow poison
deathcamas

Hierarchical position of the Genus Zigadenus

   Regnum  Plantae
common name: The plant kingdom
  
   Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist
syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta
pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
common name: angiosperms, flowering plants
  
   Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal
pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
common name: Angiosperms
  
   Classis  Liliopsida Brongn.
pub. Enum. Pl. Mus. Paris: xv, 17. 12 Aug 1843.
common name: Monocots
  
   Subclassis  Liliidae J.H. Schaffn.
pub. Ohio Naturalist 11: 413. Dec 1911.
  
   SuperOrdo  Lilianae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 473. Jan-Mar 1967.
  
   Ordo  Melanthiales R. Dahlgre ex Reveal
pub. 1992
  
   Familia  Melanthiaceae Batsch
pub. Tab. Affin. Regni Veg.: 133. 2 Mai 1802.
  
   Genus  Zigadenus Michx.
common name: deathcamas
  

Named members of the Genus Zigadenus

1
   Species  alpinus Blank.
syn. Zigadenus elegans ssp. elegans
2
   Species  brevibracteatus (M.E. Jones) Hall
common name: desert deathcamas
  
3
   Species  densus (Desr.) Fern.
common name: Osceola's plume, crow poison
  
4
   Species  elegans Pursh
common name: white camas, elegant camas
  
 
5
   Subspecies  elegans
common name: mountain deathcamas
6
   Subspecies  glaucus (Nutt.) Hult�n
common name: mountain deathcamas
7
   Varietas  glaucus (Nutt.) Cronq.
syn. Zigadenus elegans ssp. glaucus
8
   Species  exaltatus Eastw.
common name: giant deathcamas
9
   Species  fontanus Eastw.
syn. Zigadenus micranthus var. fontanus
10
   Species  fremontii (Torr.) Torr. ex S. Wats.
common name: Fremont's camas
  
 
11
   Varietas  brevibracteatus M.E. Jones
syn. Zigadenus brevibracteatus
12
   Varietas  inezianus Jepson
syn. Zigadenus fremontii
13
   Varietas  minor (Hook. & Arn.) Jepson
syn. Zigadenus fremontii
14
   Varietas  salsus Jepson
syn. Zigadenus fremontii
15
   Species  glaberrimus Michx.
common name: sandbog deathcamas
16
   Species  glaucus Nutt.
syn. Zigadenus elegans ssp. glaucus
17
   Species  gramineus Rydb.
syn. Zigadenus venenosus var. gramineus
18
   Species  intermedius Rydb.
syn. Zigadenus venenosus var. gramineus
19
   Species  leimanthoides Gray
common name: pinebarren deathcamas
20
   Species  micranthus Eastw.
 
21
   Varietas  fontanus (Eastw.) O.S. Walsh ex McNeal
common name: smallflower deathcamas
22
   Varietas  micranthus
common name: smallflower deathcamas
23
   Species  mogollonensis W.J. Hess & R.C. Sivinski
common name: Mogoll deathcamas
24
   Species  muscitoxicus (Walt.) Regel
syn. Amianthium muscitoxicum
25
   Species  nuttallii (Gray) S. Wats.
common name: Nuttall's deathcamas
  
26
   Species  paniculatus (Nutt.) S. Wats.
common name: foothill deathcamas
27
   Species  vaginatus (Rydb.) J.F. Macbr.
common name: sheathed deathcamas
28
   Species  venenosus S. Wats.
common name: death camas
  
 
29
   Varietas  gramineus (Rydb.) Walsh ex M.E. Peck
common name: grassy deathcamas
30
   Varietas  micranthus (Eastw.) Jepson
syn. Zigadenus micranthus var. micranthus
31
   Varietas  venenosus
common name: meadow deathcamas
32
   Species  virescens (Kunth) J.F. Macbr.
common name: green deathcamas

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

 

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.

 

Last reviewed November 01, 2004   

 

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