Tanacetum

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Tanacetum
Tanacetum vulgare
Tansy
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Anthemideae
Genus: Tanacetum
L. (1753)
Type species
Tanacetum vulgare L.
Species

See text

Synonyms

Balsamita Mill.
Pyrethrum Zinn
Gymnocline Cass.
Pyrethrum Medik.
Spathipappus Tzvelev
Sources: ING,[1] E+M,[2] IPNI,[3] GRIN[4]

Tanacetum is a genus of about 160 species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to many regions of the Northern Hemisphere.[5]

Tanacetum corymbosum

Common names include Tansy (Tanacetum vulgare; sometimes called Common Tansy or Garden Tansy), Costmary (Tanacetum balsamita), and Feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium); several other species are also known as tansies.

Tanacetum species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Bordered Pug, Grey Pug, Lime-speck Pug, Tawny Speckled Pug, Wormwood Pug and the Coleophora case-bearers C. chrysanthemi (feeds exclusively on T. corymbosum), C. tanaceti (feeds exclusively on T. vulgare) and C. trochilella.[citation needed]

[edit] Selected species

Tanacetum abrotanifolium (L.) Druce
Tanacetum achilleifolium (M. Bieb.) Sch. Bip.
Tanacetum argenteum (Lam.) Willd.
Tanacetum atkinsonii (C.B.Clarke) Kitam.
Tanacetum balsamita L.
Tanacetum bipinnatum (L.) Sch. Bip.
Tanacetum camphoratum Less.
Tanacetum cinerariifolium (Trevir.) Sch. Bip.
Tanacetum coccineum (Willd.) Grierson
Tanacetum corymbosum (L.) Sch. Bip.
Tanacetum densum (Labill.) Sch. Bip.
Tanacetum ferulaceum (Sch. Bip.) Walp.
Tanacetum haradjanii (Rech. f.) Grierson
Tanacetum huronense Nutt.
Tanacetum macrophyllum (Waldst. & Kit.) Sch. Bip.
Tanacetum microphyllum DC.
Tanacetum parthenifolium (Willd.) Sch. Bip.
Tanacetum parthenium (L.) Sch. Bip.
Tanacetum poteriifolium (Nordm.) Grierson
Tanacetum praeteritium (Horw.) Heywood
Tanacetum ptarmiciflorum (Webb) Sch. Bip.
Tanacetum vulgare L.
Sources: E+M[2] NRCS,[6] GRIN[4]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

Media related to Tanacetum at Wikimedia Commons Data related to Tanacetum at Wikispecies

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