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Taxon:  Glycyrrhiza lepidota Pursh



Summary
Genus:
Glycyrrhiza
Family:
Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Faboideae
Tribe:
Galegeae
Subtribe:
Glycyrrhizinae
Nomen number:
17822
Place of publication:
Fl. Amer. sept. 2:480. 1813
Comment:
  • Pursh indirectly cited Lequiritia lepidota Nutt., nom. nud.
  • for date of this publication see Taxon 57:305. 2008
Verified:
03/23/1987 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
2 (2  active, 0  available) in Australian Pastures Genebank.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
No images


Reference(s)
  1. Bolley, H. L. 1893. Notes on root tubercles (Wurzelkn&luml;lchen) of indigenous and exotic legumes in virgin soil of northwest. Agric. Sci. (Geneva) 7:58-66.
  2. Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
  3. Cronquist, A. et al. Intermountain flora. 1972-
  4. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
  5. Foster, S. & C. Hobbs. A field guide to Western medicinal plants and herbs. 2002
  6. Foster, S. & J. A. Duke. A field guide to medicinal plants: Eastern/Central North America, 2nd ed. 2000
  7. Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2. 1991
  8. Jones, G. N. & G. D. Fuller. Vascular plants of Illinois. 1955
  9. Kartesz, J. T. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. 1994
  10. Kindscher, K. Medicinal wild plants of the prairie: an ethnobotanical guide. 1992
  11. Martin, W. C. & C. R. Hutchins. A flora of New Mexico. 1980
  12. Moerman, D. Native American ethnobotany, ed. 5. 1998
  13. Moore, M. Medicinal plants of the mountain west, ed. 2. 2003
  14. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  15. Seed Regulatory and Testing Division, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act (updated annually).
  16. Steyermark, J. A. Flora of Missouri. 1977
  17. Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. Flora of Iraq. 1966-
  18. Walther, A. 1989. Development of the native legume Glycyrrhiza lepidota as a potential soil reclamation and forage crop. 43pp.
  19. Welsh, S. L. 1978. Utah flora: Fabaceae (Leguminosae). Great Basin Naturalist 38:312.
Common names
English
American licorice –
American liquorice –
wild licorice –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeNorthern AmericaEastern CanadaCanadaOntario 
1NativeNorthern AmericaNorth-Central U.S.A.United StatesIllinois 
1NativeNorthern AmericaNorth-Central U.S.A.United StatesMinnesota 
1NativeNorthern AmericaNorth-Central U.S.A.United StatesMissouri 
1NativeNorthern AmericaNorth-Central U.S.A.United StatesWisconsin 
1NativeNorthern AmericaNorthwestern U.S.A.United StatesWashington 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSouth-Central U.S.A.United StatesTexas 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSouthwestern U.S.A.United StatesCalifornia 
1NativeNorthern AmericaWestern CanadaCanadaAlberta 
2Cultivated     
Native
Northern America
  • EASTERN CANADA: Canada [Ontario]
  • NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Wisconsin]
  • NORTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Washington]
  • SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas]
  • SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [California]
  • WESTERN CANADA: Canada [Alberta]
Cultivated ()
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Animal foodfodder Walther, A. 1989. Development of the native legume Glycyrrhiza lepidota as a potential soil reclamation and forage crop. 43pp.
Environmentalsoil improver Walther, A. 1989. Development of the native legume Glycyrrhiza lepidota as a potential soil reclamation and forage crop. 43pp.
Weedpotential seed contaminant Seed Regulatory and Testing Division, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act (updated annually).
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://apg.pir.sa.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=17822. Accessed 18 July 2025.


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