Asparagus officinalis L. Asparagus verticillatus L. ASPARAGACEAE George Fayvush, Alla Aleksanyan, Naiba P. Mehdiyeva, Valida M. Alizade, Ketevan Batsatsashvili, Zaal Kikvidze, Manana Khutsishvili, Inesa Maisaia, Shalva Sikharulidze, David Tchelidze, Narel Y. Paniagua Zambrana, and Rainer W. Bussmann Synonyms Asparagus officinalis L.: Asparagus officinalis var. altilis L.; Asparagus altilis (L.) Asch., Asparagus hortensis Mill. ex Baker Asparagus verticillatus L.: Asparagus verticillaris Lam.; Asparagus tricarinatus K. Koch; Asparagus volubilis Thunb. G. Fayvush • A. Aleksanyan Institute of Botany of National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia e-mail: gfayvush@yahoo.com; alla.alexanyan@gmail.com N.P. Mehdiyeva • V.M. Alizade Institute of Botany, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan e-mail: naiba_m@mail.ru; vm_alizade@yahoo.com K. Batsatsashvili • M. Khutsishvili • I. Maisaia • S. Sikharulidze • D. Tchelidze Institute of Botany and Bakuriani Alpine Botanical Garden, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia e-mail: ketevan_batt@yahoo.com; mananakhuts@yahoo.com; Inesa.Maisaia@gmail.com; bakurianigarden@yahoo.com; nickibakanidze@yahoo.de Z. Kikvidze 4-D Research Institute, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia e-mail: zaal.kikvidze@iliauni.edu.ge N.Y. Paniagua Zambrana Instituto de Ecología-UMSA, Herbario Nacional de Bolivia, La Paz, Bolivia e-mail: nyaroslava@yahoo.es R.W. Bussmann (*) William L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO, USA e-mail: rainer.bussmann@mobot.org # Springer International Publishing AG 2017 R.W. Bussmann (ed.), Ethnobotany of the Caucasus, European Ethnobotany, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-49412-8_100 123