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Apios
Apios is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. It contains seven species of perennial climbing herbs or scandent shrubs. Several members of this genus are known to have edible, tuberous roots.
Apios species are native to eastern North America, from eastern Canada through the eastern and Central United States, and to eastern and southeastern Asia, from the Himalayas through Indochina, China, Korea, and Japan, from approximately 50° to 20° north latitude.
6 branches of this genus, most-observed first
American groundnut
speciesApios americana
Traveler's Delight
speciesApios priceana
Apios fortunei
speciesApios fortunei
Apios carnea
speciesApios carnea
Apios delavayi
speciesApios delavayi
Apios macrantha
speciesApios macrantha
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.163
On Medical Materials in Six Books
Dioscorides · 1550 · p.653
De medicinali materia libri sex
Dioscorides · 1552 · p.661
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.803
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.718
Discourses on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Dioscorides; Pietro Andrea Mattioli (comm.) · 1568 · p.1518
Discourses on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Dioscorides; Pietro Andrea Mattioli (comm.) · 1568 · p.1519
Complete Treatise on Agricultural Administration
Xu Guangqi · 1909 · p.723
Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.287
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Apios in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 119820.