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Ambrosia L.

Tuoksukit Ragweed Bursage Burweed
Ambrosia, Biota of North America Program (query database) [BONAP]
Ambrosia, Den Virtuella Floran [DVF]
Ambrosia (Asteraceae) ; [GNSP]

Foodplants for Chlorochlamys chloroleucaria, Chlosyne lacinia, Ostrinia obumbratalis, Tarachidia candefacta, T. erastrioides

600x865 (~116Kb) USA:Camano Island State Park (48°07'43N 122°30'06W ±1km), Island Co., WA, 19.7.2000, Photo © Markku Savela	520x741 (~55Kb) USA:Camano Island State Park (48°07'43N 122°30'06W ±1km), Island Co., WA, 19.7.2000, Photo © Markku Savela	900x745 (~122Kb) USA:Camano Island State Park (48°07'43N 122°30'06W ±1km), Island Co., WA, 19.7.2000, Photo © Markku Savela
700x970 (~127Kb) USA: Beach on 101, False Clamath Cove (41°36'09N 124°06'01W ±0.5km), Del Norte Co. CA, 3.8.2001, Photo © Markku Savela	900x596 (~152Kb) USA: Beach on 101, False Clamath Cove (41°36'09N 124°06'01W ±0.5km), Del Norte Co. CA, 3.8.2001, Photo © Markku Savela	1000x667 (~224Kb) USA: On Goffs Rd (34°50'40N 115°08'32W), Fenner Valley, Mojave Desert, San Bernardino Co., CA, 31.7.2005, Photo © Markku Savela
1000x1462 (~143Kb) USA: On Goffs Rd (34°50'40N 115°08'32W), Fenner Valley, Mojave Desert, San Bernardino Co., CA, 31.7.2005, Photo © Markku Savela

The exact identification of these species is still unknown, but tentatively assumed to belong into this group.

Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.

Marunatuoksukki Common Ragweed Roman Wormwood Hog-weed Bitter-weed Annual Ragweed Malörtsambrosia
Ambrosia artemisiifolia ; [RK, 421]; [GMBOT, 828]; [FPN, 480]

Foodplant for Synchlora aerata aerata

Ambrosia trifida L.

Sormituoksukki Great Ragweed Giant Ragweed Ambrosia
Ambrosia trifida ; [RK, 421]; [GMBOT, 828]; [FPN, 480]

Foodplant for Chlosyne gorgone, C. gorgone carlota, C. lacinia, Hahncappsia marculenta, Papaipema nebris, Plagiomimicus pityochromus, Schinia bifascia

A. t. var. integrifolia (Muhl.) T. & G.

Ambrosia trifida var. integrifolia ; [GMBOT, 828]

Ambrosia deltoidea (Torr.) Payne

desert (Arizona). See [About maps] Triange burr-ragweed

Ambrosia dumosa (Gray) Payne

desert (S.California). See [About maps] White burrobush

Foodplant for Synchlora frondaria avidaria

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References:

[About maps]

Warning! The maps are automatically generated from the textual information, and the process does not always produce acceptable result; See about maps for more info.

[BONAP]

A Synonymized Checklist of the Vascular Flora of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands; A data base interface; BONAP U.S. Checklist - 1998; Provided by TAMU-BWG; Texas A & M Bioinformatics Working Group; Based on; Biota of North America Program

[DVF]

Den Virtuella floran; http://linnaeus.nrm.se/flora/welcome.html; Ett projekt vid Naturhistoriska riksmuseet (Stockholm, Sweden).; Even for non-Swedish speaker, the distribution maps on species are nice (map buttons "Norden" and "Norra halvklotet")

[FPN]

Hitchcock & Cronquist, 1998; Flora of the Pacific Northwest (11th ed.); ISBN 0-295-95273-3

[GMBOT]

Robinson, Benjamin, Fernald, Lyndon, 1908; Gray's New Manual of Botany (7th edition); A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Central and Northeastern United States and adjacent Canada; American Book Company

[GNSP]

Wielgorskaya, 1995; Dictionary of generic names of seed plants

[RK]

Hämet-Ahti, L., Suominen, J., Ulvinen, T. & Uotila, P. (eds), 1998; Retkeilykasvio (Field Flora of Finland); Ed. 4. 656 pp.; Finnish Museum of Natural History, Botanical Museum. Helsinki

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