Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Ranunculales > Berberidaceae > Berberis > Berberis canadensis

Berberis canadensis (American barberry)

Synonyms:

Wikipedia Abstract

Berberis canadensis, commonly known as the American barberry or Allegheny barberry, is a member of the family Berberidaceae. Berberis canadensis is the only simple-leaved Berberis indigenous to the United States. The epithet "canadensis" literally means "Canadian" but was often used by 18th-Century botanists to refer to any plants growing in northeastern North America
View Wikipedia Record: Berberis canadensis

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-Low
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Leaf Type [2]  Deciduous
Lifespan [3]  Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Insects, Lepidoptera, Bats
Structure [2]  Shrub
Usage [2]  A yellow dye is obtained from the root.
Height [2]  5.904 feet (1.8 m)
View Plants For A Future Record : Berberis canadensis

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area National Recreation Area V 120283 Kentucky, Tennessee, United States
Friendship Hill National Historic Site III 697 Pennsylvania, United States
Obed Wild and Scenic River National River and Wild and Scenic Riverway V 5268 Tennessee, United States

Predators

Hyphantria cunea (fall webworm)[4]
Icerya purchasi (cottony cushion scale)[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 4HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 5Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0