PLANTS Profile for Ligusticum canadense (Canadian licorice-root)

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PLANTS Profile

Ligusticum canadense (L.) Britton
Canadian licorice-root

Symbol:

LICA16

Group:

Dicot

Family:

Apiaceae

Duration:

Perennial

Growth Habit:

Forb/herb

Native Status:

L48

Photo of Ligusticum canadense (L.) Britton

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Ligusticum canadense (L.) Britton

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Distribution:
Ligusticum canadense (L.) Britton


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USA (AL, AR, GA, IN, KY, MD, MO, MS, NC, OH, PA, SC, TN, VA, WV)

Related Taxa:
Ligusticum canadense (L.) Britton

View 91 genera in Apiaceae, 12 species in Ligusticum

Classification:
Ligusticum canadense (L.) Britton

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Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass	Rosidae
Order	Apiales
Family	Apiaceae – Carrot family
Genus	Ligusticum L. – licorice-root
Species	Ligusticum canadense (L.) Britton – Canadian licorice-root

Threatened and Endangered Information:
Ligusticum canadense (L.) Britton

This plant is listed by the U.S. federal government or a state. Common names are from state and federal lists. Click on a place name to get a complete protected plant list for that location.

Indiana:
Nondo lovage		Endangered
Maryland:
American lovage		Endangered, Extirpated
Ohio:
American lovage		Presumed Extirpated
Pennsylvania:
lovage		Endangered

Wetland Indicator Status:

NOTE: On June 1, 2012, the 2012 National Wetland Plant List superseded the information below (see Federal Register, May 9, 2012, 77(90): 27210-27214[https://federalregister.gov/a/2012-11176]). For updated wetland information about this species, see the latest wetland list.

Ligusticum canadense (L.) Britton

Nat. Ind.

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Reg. 0

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FAC

Interpreting Wetland Indicator Status

More Accounts and Images:
Ligusticum canadense (L.) Britton

View taxonomic account from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number 29528.

View species account from Native American Ethnobotany (University of Michigan - Dearborn).

View photographs and distribution from University of Tennessee Herbarium.

Time Generated: 05/22/2013 11:09 PM CDT