Tofieldia pusilla

Tofieldia pusilla is a species of flowering plant in the family Tofieldiaceae. It is also sometimes classified in the lily family, Liliaceae.[1] Its common name is Scottish asphodel in Europe,[2] and Scotch false asphodel in North America.[1] The plant is native to northern North America and parts of Eurasia, its circumpolar distribution extending across Canada and the northern United States to Greenland, Iceland and northern Europe.

Tofieldia pusilla
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Tofieldiaceae
Genus: Tofieldia
Species:
T. pusilla
Binomial name
Tofieldia pusilla
Synonyms

Narthecium pusillum Michx.

References

  1. "Tofieldia pusilla in Flora of North America @ efloras.org". www.efloras.org. Retrieved 2017-02-02.
  2. Clive A. Stace (2010). "Tofieldiaceae – Scottish Asphodel family". New Flora of the British Isles (3rd ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 834. ISBN 978-0-521-70772-5.


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