''Adlumia'' is a genus of two species in the family

Papaveraceae The Papaveraceae, informally known as the poppy family, are an economically important family (biology), family of about 42 genera and approximately 775 known species of flowering plants in the order Ranunculales. The family is cosmopolitan dis ...

. The genus name derives from

John Adlum John Adlum (April 29, 1759 – March 14, 1836) was a pioneering American viticulturalist who was the first to cultivate the Catawba grape. He is known as "the father of American viticulture" (grape-growing). He also served in the American Revolu ...

(1759–1836), a surveyor, associate judge, plantsman and agriculturist who ran an experimental farm in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. The genus was first described and published in Syst. Nat. Vol.2 on page 111 in 1821. One species, '' Adlumia fungosa'', is commonly known as the ''Allegheny vine'', ''climbing fumitory'', or ''mountain fringe''. It is found in the eastern US, north of VA and TN, as far west as IA and MN, as well as in eastern Canada. The other species, '' Adlumia asiatica'', is native to

Korea Korea is a peninsular region in East Asia consisting of the Korean Peninsula, Jeju Island, and smaller islands. Since the end of World War II in 1945, it has been politically Division of Korea, divided at or near the 38th parallel north, 3 ...

and immediately neighbouring parts of China (in

Manchuria Manchuria is a historical region in northeast Asia encompassing the entirety of present-day northeast China and parts of the modern-day Russian Far East south of the Uda (Khabarovsk Krai), Uda River and the Tukuringra-Dzhagdy Ranges. The exact ...

) and southeast Russia (within Amur and Khabarovsk).

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External links

Connecticut Botanical Society: ''Adlumia fungosa''
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