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Taxon:  Stachys officinalis (L.) Trevis.



Summary
Genus:
Stachys
Family:
Lamiaceae (alt. Labiatae)
Subfamily:
Lamioideae
Nomen number:
35407
Place of publication:
Prosp. fl. Eugan. 26. 1842
Verified:
09/11/1995 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Betonica officinalis L.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Stachys betonica Benth.
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Reference(s)
  1. Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin). 2009 Note:
    • based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
    • http://www.skud.info
  2. American Herbal Products Association. Herbs of commerce. 1992
  3. Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource). http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/BSBI/taxonsearch.php
  4. Davis, P. H., ed. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. 1965-1988
  5. Duke, J. A. et al. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002
  6. Encke, F. et al. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage. 1993
  7. Erhardt, W. et al. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. 2008
  8. Greuter, W. et al., eds. Med-Checklist. 1984-
  9. Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992
  10. Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. Flora SSSR. 1934-1964 Note: = Betonica officinalis L.
  11. McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 Note: American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, MD
  12. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
  13. Solymosi, P. 1996. Gyomszabályozálsra használlhatól donornölvélnyek (Donor plants for weed management). Növényvédelem 32:23-34.
  14. Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. Flora europaea. 1964-1980
  15. Webster's third new international dictionary. 1961 Note: = Betonica officinalis
Common names
English
betony –
bishop's-wort –
purple betony –
wood betony –
German
echter Ziest –
Heil-Ziest –
Swedish
humlesuga –
Distribution
Native
Africa
  • NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria (n.), Morocco, Tunisia
Asia-Temperate
  • CAUCASUS: Russian Federation-Ciscaucasia [Ciscaucasia], Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation [Dagestan]
  • SIBERIA: Russian Federation-Western Siberia [Western Siberia]
  • WESTERN ASIA: Turkey (n.)
Europe
  • EAST EUROPE: Russian Federation-European part [European part], Belarus, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine [Krym]
  • MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland
  • NORTHERN EUROPE: Denmark, United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden (s.)
  • SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Former Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Romania
  • SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: Spain, France, Portugal
Cultivated (also cult.)
Economic Uses
Environmental
Medicines
folklore (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2) –
Non-vertebrate poisons
potential for weed control (fide Solymosi in Novenyvedelem 32:23-24 1996.) –


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