Taxon: Euonymus americanus L.

Common names:

• bursting-heart   (Source: Hortus 3 )
  
• hearts-bustin'-with-love   (Source: not available)
  
• strawberry-bush   (Source: Hortus 3 )
  
• amerikanischer Spindelstrauch   (Source: Zander ed17 ) [German]
  

Economic importance:

• View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
• View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Indiana [s.], New Jersey, New York [s.], Ohio [s.], Pennsylvania [s.], West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois [s.], Missouri [s.e.], Oklahoma
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida [n.], Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas

References:

• Blakelock, R. A. 1951. A synopsis of the genus Euonymus L. Kew Bull. 1951:271.
• Browne, E. T. & R. Athey. 1992. Vascular plants of Kentucky: an annotated checklist. (L Kentucky)
• Clewell, A. F. 1985. Guide to the vascular plants of the Florida panhandle. (F FlaPan)
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas. (F Tex)
• Deam, C. C. 1940. Flora of Indiana. (F Indiana)
• Duncan, W. H. & J. T. Kartesz. 1981. Vascular flora of Georgia: an annotated checklist. (L Georgia)
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2. (Glea Cron ed2)
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• Jones, G. N. & G. D. Fuller. 1955. Vascular plants of Illinois. (F IllJones)
• Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976). (Krussmann)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains. (F GPlains) [mentions].
• Meyer, F. G. et al. 1994. A catalog of cultivated woody plants of the southeastern United States. (L CultWPl SE US)
• Mitchell, R. S., ed. 1986. A checklist of New York state plants. New York State Mus. Bull. 458. (L New York)
• Ohio Flora Committee (E. L. Braun, T. S. Cooperrider, T. R. Fisher, J. J. Furlow). 1967–. The vascular flora of Ohio. (F Ohio)
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. (F Carolin)
• Rehder, A. 1949. Bibliography of cultivated trees and shrubs. (Rehder)
• Smith, E. B. 1978. An atlas and annotated list of the vascular plants of Arkansas. (L Arkansas)
• Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri. (F Missouri)
• Strausbaugh, T. D. & E. L. Core. 1978. Flora of West Virginia, ed. 2. (F WVa)
• Wherry, E. T. et al. 1979. Atlas of the flora of Pennsylvania. (Atlas Penn)
• Wunderlin, R. P. 1982. Guide to the vascular plants of central Florida. (F CFla)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Euonymus americanus.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Euonymus americanus. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for Euonymus americanus L.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• Fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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