Euphrasia: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Lamiales
- Family
- Orobanchaceae
- Genus
- Euphrasia
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Euphrasia
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Euphrasia
Euphrasia, or eyebright, is a genus of about 215 species of herbaceous flowering plants in the family Orobanchaceae (formerly included in the Scrophulariaceae), with a cosmopolitan distribution. They are hemiparasitic on grasses and other plants. Both the common and generic names refer to the plant's use in a lotion for treating eye infections, with Euphrasia literally meaning 'good-cheer'.
Many species are found in alpine or sub-alpine meadows where snow is common. Flowers usually are borne terminally, are zygomorphic, and have a lower petal shaped like a lip. The most common flower colours are purple, blue-white, and violet. Some species have yellow markings on the lower petal to act as a guide to pollinating insects.
Alternative names, mainly in herbalism, are Augentrostkraut, Euphrasiae herba, Herba Euphrasiae and Herbe d'Euphraise.
...Euphrasia in languages:
- Bokmål
- øyentrøstslekta
- Chinese
- 碎雪草屬
- Chinese
- 小米草屬
- Czech
- Světlík
- Danish
- Øjentrøst
- English
- Eyebright
- Estonian
- silmarohud
- Finnish
- Silmäruohot
- French
- Euphraises
- German
- Augentrost
- Italian
- Eufrasie
- Japanese
- コゴメグサ属
- Korean
- 좁쌀풀속
- Lithuanian
- Akišveitė
- Polish
- Świetlik
- Russian
- Очанка
- Slovene
- smetlika
- Swedish
- ögontröster
- Swedish
- ögontröstsläktet
- Ukrainian
- Очанка
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Euphrasia achibuenoensis
- Euphrasia adenocaulon
- Euphrasia adenonota
- Euphrasia ajanensis
- Euphrasia alba
- Euphrasia alboffii
- Euphrasia alii
- Euphrasia alpina
- Euphrasia alsa
- Euphrasia altaica
- Euphrasia amblyodonta
- Euphrasia amphisysepala
- Euphrasia amplidens
- Euphrasia andicola
- Euphrasia antarctica
- Euphrasia arctica
- Euphrasia arguta
- Euphrasia aristulata
- Euphrasia atropurpurea
- Euphrasia australis
- Euphrasia azorica
- Euphrasia bajankolica
- Euphrasia bakurianica
- Euphrasia bella
- Euphrasia bhutanica
- Euphrasia borneensis
- Euphrasia bottnica
- Euphrasia bowdeniae
- Euphrasia brevilabris
- Euphrasia calida
- Euphrasia cambrica
- Euphrasia caucasica
- Euphrasia caudata
- Euphrasia cheesemanii
- Euphrasia chitrovoi
- Euphrasia chrysantha
- Euphrasia cockayneana
- Euphrasia collina
- Euphrasia confusa
- Euphrasia confusa × nemorosa
- Euphrasia corcontica
- Euphrasia coreanalpina
- Euphrasia crassiuscula
- Euphrasia cuneata
- Euphrasia cuspidata
- Euphrasia daghestanica
- Euphrasia disjuncta
- Euphrasia disperma
- Euphrasia drucei
- Euphrasia dunensis
- Euphrasia dyeri
- Euphrasia eichleri
- Euphrasia farlowii
- Euphrasia flavicans
- Euphrasia formosissima
- Euphrasia foulaensis
- Euphrasia fragosa
- Euphrasia frigida
- Euphrasia gibbsiae
- Euphrasia grandiflora
- Euphrasia heslop-harrisonii
- Euphrasia himalayica
- Euphrasia hirtella
- Euphrasia hookeri
- Euphrasia hudsoniana
- Euphrasia hyperborea
- Euphrasia illyrica
- Euphrasia inopinata
- Euphrasia insignis
- Euphrasia integrifolia
- Euphrasia juzepczukii
- Euphrasia kisoalpina
- Euphrasia krylovii
- Euphrasia laingii
- Euphrasia lasianthera
- Euphrasia liburnica
- Euphrasia marchesettii
- Euphrasia marshallii
- Euphrasia matsumurae
- Euphrasia maximowiczii
- Euphrasia meiantha
- Euphrasia melanosticta
- Euphrasia mendoncae
- Euphrasia micrantha
- Euphrasia microphylla
- Euphrasia minima
- Euphrasia mollis
- Euphrasia monroi
- Euphrasia nankotaizanensis
- Euphrasia nemorosa
- Euphrasia oakesii
- Euphrasia officinalis
- Euphrasia onegensis
- Euphrasia orthocheila
- Euphrasia ossica
- Euphrasia ostenfeldii
- Euphrasia parviflora
- Euphrasia pectinata
- Euphrasia petiolaris
- Euphrasia petriei
- Euphrasia picta
- Euphrasia platyphylla
- Euphrasia portae
- Euphrasia pseudokerneri
- Euphrasia pulchella
- Euphrasia ramulosa
- Euphrasia randii
- Euphrasia rectiflora
- Euphrasia regelii
- Euphrasia repens
- Euphrasia reuteri
- Euphrasia revoluta
- Euphrasia rhumica
- Euphrasia rivularis
- Euphrasia rotundifolia
- Euphrasia salisburgensis
- Euphrasia scabra
- Euphrasia schischkinii
- Euphrasia schlagintweitii
- Euphrasia scottica
- Euphrasia semipicta
- Euphrasia sibirica
- Euphrasia sinuata
- Euphrasia striata
- Euphrasia stricta
- Euphrasia subarctica
- Euphrasia subexserta
- Euphrasia suborbicularis
- Euphrasia syreitschikovii
- Euphrasia tarokoana
- Euphrasia tatarica
- Euphrasia tatrae
- Euphrasia taurica
- Euphrasia tetraquetra
- Euphrasia townsonii
- Euphrasia transmorrisonensis
- Euphrasia tricuspidata
- Euphrasia trifida
- Euphrasia ussuriensis
- Euphrasia vigursii
- Euphrasia vinacea
- Euphrasia wettsteiniana
- Euphrasia wettsteinii
- Euphrasia willkommii
- Euphrasia woronowii
- Euphrasia zelandica
- Euphrasia × areschougii
- Euphrasia × atroviolacea
- Euphrasia × eurycarpa
- Euphrasia × glanduligera
- Euphrasia × vernalis
- Euphrasia × villosa































































































































































