Details for: NSL 439980, Symphoricarpos albus (L.) S. F. Blake, Prospectors Germplasm


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Symphoricarpos albus (L.) S. F. Blake
Top Name:
Prospectors Germplasm
Origin:
Collected – Montana, United States
Received by NPGS:
31 Mar 2004
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Life Habit:
Shrub
Availability
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Symphoricarpos albus (L.) S. F. Blake
Top Name:
Prospectors Germplasm
Origin:
Collected – Montana, United States
Received by NPGS:
31 Mar 2004
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Life Habit:
Shrub
Source History
Collected
27 October 1998.
Deer Lodge County, Montana, United States
Locality: Smelter Hill located approximately 0.5 mile southwest of the Washoe smelter stack
Coordinates: 46.1033, -112.9320 (Map it)
Elevation: 1840m.
Georeference protocol: Lat/Lon determined via Map location
Habitat: Wild Habitat
Environment description: Loamy textured soil on east-facing slope.
Number of plants sampled: 50
Comment: Coordinates provided based on location description.
Donated
2004.
Montana, United States

Donor(s):
Accession Group(s)
Group name: NRCS Conservation Plant Releases
Note: These are accessions released by the USDA-NRCS Plant Materials Centers. Accessions may represent germplasm that is of wild origin and has not been altered; germplasm that is of wild origin but developed (F1 or F2) by utilizing numerous germplasms from across a similar ecoregion; or germplasm of cultivated origin. Releases are selections with superior performance.
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Accession Names and Identifiers
Prospectors Germplasm
Type: Developer identifier
Group: NRCS
Bridger Plant Materials Center, Bridger, Montana - 2002 Release.

9078388
Type: Institute identifier
Group: NRCS
Natural Resources Conservation Service

NSL 439980
Type: Site identifier

Narrative
Common snowberry is recognized as a good soil stabilizer in a broad range of soil types and provides nesting, cover, and protective shelter for many birds, ungulates, and small mammals. The Prospectors Germplasm Selected class release has the same general botanical and phenological attributes as the species. Common snowberry is an erect, branching, deciduous shrub found throughout the western United States at various elevations. It is a cool season plant with rhizomatous roots and often forms dense thickets about 0.9 m tall. The flowers are pinkish to white, bell-shaped and usually less than 19 mm in size, with the petals fused together over half their length. The berries are pure white (wax like), tightly clustered, pulpy, and two-seeded. The berries often persist on the branches throughout the winter. It has simple, opposite leaves that are generally oval to elliptical but may have irregular shaped lobes. In south-central Montana, flowering usually occurs in June and fruits usually mature by mid-September. Prospectors Germplasm was released (2002) by the Natural Resources Conservation Service Bridger Plant Materials Center, Bridger, MT. Germplasm represents naturally occurring germplasm originating near Anaconda, MT that has been unaltered. Selected for its superior survival, vigor, and growth in a comparative evaluation planting at the Bridger PMC.
Symphoricarpos albus (L.) S. F. Blake
Genus:
Symphoricarpos
Family:
Caprifoliaceae
Subfamily:
Caprifolioideae
Nomen number:

36006
Place of publication:

Rhodora 16:118. 1914
Verified:
05/20/1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Symphoricarpos albus (L.) S. F. Blake var. albus (0 active accession[s])
Symphoricarpos albus (L.) S. F. Blake var. laevigatus (Fernald) S. F. Blake (2 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Symphoricarpos racemosus Michx.

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishcommon snowberry  1Englert, J. M. et al. 2002. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators
Englishsnowberry  1Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada
Englishwaxberry  1Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada
English (Canada)thin-leaved snowberry Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada official name2Darbyshire, S. J. 2003. Inventory of Canadian Agricultural Weeds Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. 234.
Frenchsymphorine blanche  2Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage
French (Canada)symphorine blanche Agriculture & Agroalimentaire Canada nom officiel2Darbyshire, S. J. 2003. Inventory of Canadian Agricultural Weeds Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. 234.
Germangewöhnliche Schneebeere  2Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen
GermanKnallerbsenstrauch  2Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen
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Description:
Seeds collected from approximately 50 plants from a native population growing on an east-facing slope surficially contaminated by the fall out form past copper smelting emissions containing elevated concentrations of heavy metal and sulfur compounds. This accession was selected for release based on its superior survival, vigor, and growth in a comparative evaluation planting located in Deer Lodge County, Montana.