Asparagus Tourn. ex L.

Native to:

Afghanistan, Albania, Aldabra, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Austria, Baleares, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burkina, Burundi, Buryatiya, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Caprivi Strip, Central African Repu, Central European Rus, Chad, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Comoros, Congo, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Djibouti, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, France, Free State, Gabon, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Great Britain, Greece, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf States, Hainan, Hungary, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jawa, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Kuril Is., KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lebanon-Syria, Lesotho, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Madeira, Malawi, Malaya, Maldives, Mali, Maluku, Manchuria, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Netherlands, Niger, Nigeria, North Caucasus, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Qinghai, Queensland, Rodrigues, Romania, Rwanda, Réunion, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Selvagens, Senegal, Seychelles, Sicilia, Sierra Leone, Sinai, Socotra, Somalia, South European Russi, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Togo, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Western Australia, Western Sahara, Xinjiang, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Alabama, Alberta, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Azores, Baltic States, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil South, British Columbia, California, Caroline Is., Chagos Archipelago, Colorado, Connecticut, Cook Is., Costa Rica, Delaware, District of Columbia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Finland, Florida, Galápagos, Georgia, Haiti, Honduras, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Jamaica, Kansas, Kentucky, Labrador, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Maine, Manitoba, Marianas, Marshall Is., Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nauru, Nebraska, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Caledonia, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New South Wales, New York, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Newfoundland, Niue, Norfolk Is., North Carolina, North Dakota, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Norway, Nova Scotia, Ogasawara-shoto, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Prince Edward I., Puerto Rico, Québec, Rhode I., Samoa, Saskatchewan, Solomon Is., South Australia, South Carolina, South Dakota, St.Helena, Sweden, Tasmania, Tennessee, Texas, Tonga, Trinidad-Tobago, Uruguay, Utah, Vanuatu, Vermont, Victoria, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Windward Is., Wisconsin, Wyoming

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 1-529. MIM, Deurne.

Kew Bulletin

• Baker, J. G. (1875). Revision ofthe genera and species of Asparagaceae. J. Linn. Soc. Bot. 14: 508 - 632.
• Browicz, K. (1990). In: K. H. Rechinger, Flora Iranica 165:1 69 - 1 76. Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, Graz.
• Davis, P. H. (1984). Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands 8: 67 - 358. Edinburgh University Press.
• Hamdi, S. M. M. & Assadi, M. (2009). Asparagus khorasanensis (Asparagaceae), a new species from Iran. Feddes Repert. 120 (78): 419 - 426.
• Iljin, M. (1935). Asparagus. In: V. L. Komarov (ed.), Flora URSS. 4: Pp. 424 - 442. Editio Academiae scientiarum URSS, Leningrad.
• Parsa, A. (1949). Flore de I'Iran 5: 370 - 386. University of Tehran, Tehran.
• Sebsebe, D. (2008). Four new species of Asparagus (Asparagaceae) from the Flora Zambesiaca area. Kew Bull. 63: 269 - 275.
• Thiers, B. (2008) (continuously updated): Index Herbariorum. http://sciweb.nybg.org/science2/In-dexHerbarium. asp
• Wendelbo, P. (1964). In: K. H. Rechinger, Flora of Lowland Iraq. Pp: 143 - 160. J. Cramer, Weinheim. (1985). In: C. C. Townsend & E. Guest, Flora of Iraq 8: 179 - 183. Ministry of Agriculture, Baghdad & Benthan Moxon Trust, Kew.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

• F.T.A. 7: 435.
• Sp. Pl. 313 (1753)

Flora of Somalia

• Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by Sebsebe Demissew [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
• Jessop in Bothalia 9(1): 31–96 (1966).

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• Jessop in Bothalia 9: 31– 96 (1966)
• Kubutzki & Rudall in Kubutzki (ed.), Flowering Plants, Monocotyledons: Lilianae (except Orchidaceae) 3: 128 (1998)
• Sp. Pl. 1: 313 (1753)