Jepson Flora Project: Jepson Interchange for California Floristics    
Nigella damascena L.
RANUNCULACEAE
Initial Editorial Analysis 21 Feb 2003
Source of Report for California  
a Best, C., J. T. Howell, W. Knight, I. Knight, and M. Wells. 1996. A Flora of Sonoma County. California Native Plant Society, Sacramento, as cited in Kartesz & Meacham
b Hrusa et al., ms later published in Madrono 49(2)61-98. 2002: DISTRIBUTION: SnFrB, NCoRO.; STATUS: garden escape, well established as a weed.; NOTES: Commonly naturalizes about habitations; "...waste ground..."
c Hrusa et al., Madrono 49(2)61-98. 2002: DIST: SnFrB, NCoRO: Hrusa et al. Current Status: Naturalized outside of wildlands: DOC: Contra Costa Co.: waste ground, Brentwood Road at SPRR tracks, Brentwood. T01N, R02E, Sec. 18, MD. June 18, 1974, J. deFremery and C. Butler s.n. (CDA); Sonoma Co: Best, C., et al. (1996, pg. 203): NOTES: Garden escape, naturalized as a weed about habitations.
Initial Editorial Comments indicated as scattered in NA in Kartesz & Meacham; in no way mentioned in Munz, Munz Supplement, The Jepson Manual [Ed. 1]; according to Source c, in California naturalized outside of wildlands, yet conditions of cited occurrences evidently qualify for inclusion in the flora according to criteria employed by Jepson Flora Project (21 Feb 2003)
Editorial Summary and Current Status
Editorial Summary addition, naturalized in CA
Current Status JFP-2, accepted name for taxon naturalized in CA
Current Status Authority Barbara Ertter, as Editor, Jepson Flora Project
Current Status Date 21 Feb 2003
List of names for this Current Status category
List of ICPN names in Nigella
List of names from ICPN, Hrusa's Crosswalk, and Jepson Flora in Nigella

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