Cardiocrinum cordatum

Cardiocrinum cordatum
Cardiocrinum cordatum [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Liliales
Family:	Liliaceae
Subfamily:	Lilioideae
Tribe:	Lilieae
Genus:	Cardiocrinum
Species:	C. cordatum
Binomial name
Cardiocrinum cordatum (Thunb.) Makino
Synonyms [2]
Synonymy Hemerocallis cordataThunb. Libertia heteroclitaDumort. Lilium cordatum(Thunb.) Koidz. & Airy Shaw Lilium cordifolium]]Thunb. Hemerocallis cordifolia(Thunb.) Salisb. Saussurea cordifolia(Thunb.) Salisb. Lilium glehniiF.Schmidt Cardiocrinum glehnii(F.Schmidt) Makino

Cardiocrinum cordatum, known as turep in the Ainu languages, is a Northeast Asian species of plant in the lily family. It is native to Japan and to certain Russian islands in the Sea of Okhotsk (Sakhalin, Kuril Islands). ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

Because of its large, showy flowers, Cardiocrinum cordatum is sometimes cultivated as an ornamental in regions outside its native range, though not as frequently as the related C. giganteum . ^{[6] [7]}

The Ainu, a group indigenous to Hokkaido, harvested the bulbs. Starch was extracted and used to create a form of dumpling. ^[8]

The plant has reportedly become naturalized in the State of Maryland, in the eastern United States. ^{[2] [9] [10]}

References

1. illustration circa 1880 by Walter Hood Fitch (1817 - 1892), published in: Henry John Elwes: A monograph of the genus Lilium. Taylor and Francis, London 1880
2. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
3. Makino, Tomitarô 1932. Journal of Japanese Botany 8: 6.
4. Czerepanov, S.K. (1995). Vascular Plants of Russia and Adjacent States (The Former USSR): 1–516. Cambridge University Press.
5. Makino, Tomitarô 1913. Shokubutsu-gaku zasshi 27:124
6. Rare Plants UK
7. Plant World Seeds
8. 萩中美枝 (1992). Kikigaki Ainu no shokuji. Haginaka. Mie, 萩中美枝. Tōkyō: Nō-san-gyoson Bunka Kyōkai. ISBN   4-540-92004-9. OCLC   28495951.
9. Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
10. Youtube video, Cardiocrinum cordatum in a Maryland woodland 2/2