Veratrum nigrum: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Liliales
- Family
- Melanthiaceae
- Genus
- Veratrum
- Species
- Veratrum nigrum
- Scientific Name
- Veratrum nigrum
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Veratrum nigrum
Veratrum nigrum, the black false hellebore, is a widespread Eurasian species of perennial flowering plant in the family Melanthiaceae. Despite its common name, V. nigrum is not closely related to the true hellebores, nor does it resemble them.
The plant was widely known even in ancient times. For example, Lucretius (ca. 99 BCE – ca. 55 BCE) and Pliny the Elder (23 AD – August 25, 79) both knew of its medicinal emetic as well as deadly toxic properties.
...Veratrum nigrum in languages:
- Czech
- kýchavice černá
- Danish
- sort foldblad
- English
- Black False-hellebore
- Estonian
- must upsujuur
- French
- Vératre noir
- German
- Schwarzer Germer
- Hungarian
- fekete zászpa
- Japanese
- チョウセンシュロソウ
- Korean
- 참여로
- Polish
- ciemiężyca czarna
- Russian
- Чемерица чёрная
- Slovene
- črna čmerika
- Swedish
- svart nysrot
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Veratrum albiflorum
- Veratrum album
- Veratrum alpestre
- Veratrum anticleoides
- Veratrum californicum
- Veratrum dahuricum
- Veratrum dolichopetalum
- Veratrum fimbriatum
- Veratrum formosanum
- Veratrum grandiflorum
- Veratrum hybridum
- Veratrum insolitum
- Veratrum lobelianum
- Veratrum longebracteatum
- Veratrum maackii
- Veratrum maximum
- Veratrum mengtzeanum
- Veratrum micranthum
- Veratrum nigrum
- Veratrum oblongum
- Veratrum oxysepalum
- Veratrum parviflorum
- Veratrum schindleri
- Veratrum shanense
- Veratrum stamineum
- Veratrum taliense
- Veratrum versicolor
- Veratrum virginicum
- Veratrum viride
- Veratrum woodii
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