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Tanacetum balsamita

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Tracheophyta » Asterales » Asteraceae » Tanacetum balsamita
Common name (English)
Costmary
Common name (Greek)
Βάρσανα
Ηabitat
C2 Running waters
I1 Arable
X25 Domestic gardens (rural)
X10 Mixed landscapes
Global distribution

Crimea, S-European Russia, Georgia [Caucasus], Armenia, Azerbaijan (incl. Nachichevan), Turkey (E-Anatolia, Inner Anatolia, NE-Anatolia, SE-Anatolia), Cyprus (C-Mountains), Iran (EC-Iran, N-Iran, Iranian Aserbaijan, W-Iran), Iraq (NE-Iraq), Canada (I) (Nova Scotia (I), Ontario (I), Quebec (I), Saskatchewan (I)), USA (I) (California (I), Colorado (I), Connecticut (I), Delaware (I), Idaho (I), Illinois (I), Indiana (I), Kansas (I), Maine (I), Maryland (I), Massachusetts (I), Michigan (I), Missouri (I), Montana (I), Nevada (I), New Hampshire (I), New York (I), Ohio (I), Oregon (I), Pennsylvania (I), Rhode Island (I), South Dakota (I), Utah (I), Vermont (I), Washington (I), Wisconsin (I), Wyoming (I)), England (I), Ireland (I), Northern Ireland (I), Norway (I), Sweden (I), France (I), Spain (I), Belgium (I), Germany (I), Switzerland (I), Italy (I), Corsica (I), Sicily (I), Poland (I), Hungary (I), Slovenia (I), Croatia (I), Bosnia & Hercegovina (I), Serbia & Kosovo (I), Macedonia (I), Albania (I), Bulgaria (I), Greece (I), Lithuania (a), Ukraine (I), Argentina (I) 82369 0

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Habitat detail

Based on Georgiades (1995).

Establishment status
Established
Establishment status detail

Alien: Naturalized non-invasive. 

Roadsides or near streams in pine forest, 2200-5500'. Probably an escape from cultivation and almost certainly not indigenous here. Only listed for Division 2.

Recorded from: Livadi tou Pasia at Troodos (wet place) and from around central Troodos (Kryos Potamos, Kakopetria and Pano Amiantos). Typical habitat is pine forest.

First detection year
1862
Pathway
2 ESCAPE FROM CONFINEMENT - Agriculture – Ag
Pathway detail

Based on Georgiades (1995).

References

Meikle RD (1985) Flora of Cyprus, Vol. 2.

Georgiades C (1995) Η επιγενής χλωρίδα της Κύπρου. Ταξινομική, χλωριδικά, φυτογεωγραφική, οικοφυσιολογική μελέτη. [The adventive flora of Cyprus, taxonomic, floristic, phytogeographic, ecophysiological study]. Ph.D. Thesis, Athens University.

Hadjikyriakou G, Hadjisterkotis E (2002) The adventive plants of Cyprus with new records of invasive species. Zeitschrift fur Jagdwissenschaft 48: 59–71. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02192393

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Joint Service Health Unit
University of Cyprus - Department of Biological Sciences
Darwin Initiative
Akrotiri Environment

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