Asparagus albus
{{Short description|Species of plant}}
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|image_caption=Stems are white
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|image2_caption=Flowers are white
|status=LC
|status_system=IUCN3.1
|genus=Asparagus
|species=albus
|authority=L.
|synonyms=
- Asparagopsis alba {{small|(L.) Kunth}}
- Asparagus pallidus {{small|Salisb.}}
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Asparagus albus is a widespread species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to the western and central Mediterranean.{{cite POWO |id=531000-1 |title=Asparagus albus L. |access-date=25 April 2023 }} It is found in the coastal maquis shrubland biome, and in ruderal situations.
Taxonomy
Asparagus albus was formally described in 1753 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the first volume of his Species Plantarum under its current binomial name.{{ cite book | last=Linnaeus | first=Carl | author-link=Carl Linnaeus | date=1753 | title=Species plantarum : exhibentes plantas rite cognitas ad genera relatas, cum diferentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas | volume=1 | language=Latin | location=Holmiae [Stockholm] | publisher=Impensis Laurentii Salvii | page=314 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/358333 }}{{ cite web | title=Asparagus albus L. | work=International Plant Names Index (IPNI) | publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries and Australian National Herbarium | url=https://www.ipni.org/n/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:531000-1 | access-date=15 May 2024 }} The specific epithet, albus, is Latin meaning "white".{{ cite book | editor-last=Simpson | editor-first=Donald Penistan | date=1977 | chapter=albus | title=Cassell's Latin Dictionary : Latin-English, English-Latin | edition=5th | location=New York | publisher=Macmillan | isbn=0-02-522570-7 | page=33 | chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/cassellslatindic0000unse/page/33/mode/1up | chapter-url-access=registration }}
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Category:Flora of Southwestern Europe
Category:Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
Category:Plants described in 1753
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