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Taxon:  Veratrum album L.



Summary
Genus:
Veratrum
Section:
Veratrum
Family:
Melanthiaceae
Tribe:
Melanthieae
Nomen number:
41134
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 2:1044. 1753
Verified:
02/14/2011 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Veratrum album L. subsp. album (0 active accession[s])
Veratrum album L. subsp. lobelianum (Bernh.) Schubl. & G. Martens (0 active accession[s])
Veratrum album L. subsp. misae (Sirj.) Tzvelev (0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
No images
Reference(s)
  1. Šourková, M. 1988. Veratrum flavum - a forgotten species. Novit. Bot. Univ. Carol. 4:59-66.
  2. 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
  3. Alm, T. 2002. Norwegian and Sámi ethnobotany of Veratrum album (Melanthiaceae). Sida 20:611-619. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8113#/summary
  4. CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) Note: four books on weeds worldwide in scope
  5. Davis, P. H., ed. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. 1965-1988
  6. Duke, J. A. et al. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002
  7. Erhardt, W. et al. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. 2008
  8. Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource). http://www.emplantbase.org/home.html
  9. Farnsworth, N. R. & D. D. Soejarto. Global importance of medicinal plants (unpublished draft manuscript rev. 23, 1988)
  10. FNA Editorial Committee. Flora of North America. 1993- http://floranorthamerica.org/
  11. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). Note: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Veratrum+album&quantity=1
  12. Hanelt, P., ed. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. 2001 http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/pls/htmldb_pgrc/f?p=185:3:2422827336895397#
  13. Hess, H. E. et al. Flora der Schweiz, ed. 2. 1976
  14. Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992
  15. Kingsbury, J. M. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. 1964
  16. Krasnoborov, I. M., ed. Flora of Siberia (English translation). 2000-
  17. Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2. 1996 Note: mentions
  18. Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. Hortus third. 1976
  19. Mathew, B. 1989. A review of Veratrum. Plantsman 11:39-41.
  20. Pignatti, S. Flora d'Italia. 1982
  21. Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. Flora europaea. 1964-1980
  22. Walters, S. M. et al., eds. European garden flora. 1986-
  23. Zomlefer, W. B. 1997. The genera of Melanthiaceae in the southeastern United States. Harvard Pap. Bot. 2:165.
Common names
English
European white-hellebore –
white false hellebore –
white veratrum –
white-hellebore –
Dutch
witte nieswortel –
French
vérâtre blanc –
varaire blanc –
German
weißer Germer –
Italian
elleboro bianco –
veratro bianco –
veratro comune –
Portuguese
eléboro-branco –
heléboro-branco –
veratro-branco –
Spanish
eléboro blanco –
Swedish
vit nysrot –
Transliterated Russian
čemerica belaja –
Distribution
Native
Asia-Temperate
  • CAUCASUS: Russian Federation-Ciscaucasia [Ciscaucasia], Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation [Dagestan]
  • CHINA: China [Xinjiang (n.)]
  • MIDDLE ASIA: Kazakhstan
  • MONGOLIA: Mongolia (n.)
  • RUSSIAN FAR EAST: Russian Federation [Amur, Magadan]
  • SIBERIA: Russian Federation [Buryatia, Gorno-Altay, Tuva, Yakutia-Sakha, Altay, Krasnoyarsk, Chita, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Kurgan, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk, Tyumen]
  • WESTERN ASIA: Turkey
Europe
  • EAST EUROPE: Russian Federation-European part [European part], Belarus, Lithuania, Ukraine
  • MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland (s.e.), Slovakia
  • NORTHERN EUROPE: Finland (n.e.), Norway (n.)
  • SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Former Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Romania, Slovenia
  • SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: Spain, France, Portugal
Cultivated (also cult.)
Economic Uses
Environmental
Medicines
source of protoveratrines A & B (fide Import Medicinal Pl; CRC MedHerbs ed2) –
Non-vertebrate poisons
plant pest control (fide Mansf Ency) –
Vertebrate poisons
mammals (fide Kingsbury) –
Weed
(fide Weed CIBA) –


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