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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



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



Ambrosia psilostachya DC.
Western Ragweed Common Ragweed
Ambrosia psilostachya ; [GMBOT, 828]; [FPN, 480]

fiAmbrosia 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


fiAmbrosia 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 chamissonis (Less.) Greene
Silver Burweed Heath Burweed
Ambrosia chamissonis ; [FPN, 480]
Ambrosia chamissonis var. chamissonis ; [FPN, 480]
A. c. var. bipinnatisecta (Less.) J. T. Howell
Ambrosia chamissonis var. bipinnatisecta ; [FPN, 480]

Ambrosia acanthicarpa Hook.
Bur Ragweed Annual Burweed
Ambrosia acanthicarpa ; [FPN, 480]

Foodplant for Epiblema sosana


Ambrosia bidentata Michx.
Ambrosia bidentata ; [GMBOT, 827]

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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