familyViscaceae
genusViscum

Viscum album

Linnaeus

Sp. Pl. 2: 1023. 1753.

WeedyIntroducedIllustrated
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 12. Treatment on page 439. Mentioned on page 422.

Distribution

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Introduced; B.C., Calif., Europe, Asia.

Discussion

Subspecies 3 (1 in the flora).

Viscum album is found throughout Europe and western Asia and has been divided into subsp. album on woody angiosperms, subsp. abietis (Wiesbaur) Abromeit on Abies, and subsp. austriacum (Wiesbaur) Vollmann on Picea and Pinus (D. Zuber 2004).

Selected References

None.