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'''''Veratrum album''''' ('''White Hellebore''', '''European White Hellebore''', '''White Veratrum'''; [[syn.]] ''Veratrum lobelianum'' Bernh.<ref>[http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Veratrum+album ''Veratrum album''] at  [[Plants For A Future]]</ref>) is a [[medicinal plant]]<ref>[http://www.henriettesherbal.com/eclectic/felter/veratrum-albu.html Felter, Harvey Wickes. (1922) ''The Eclectic Materia Medica, Pharmacology and Therapeutics.'']</ref><ref>[http://www.henriettesherbal.com/eclectic/kings/veratrum-albu.html Felter, Harvey Wickes;  Lloyd, John Uri. (1898) ''King's American Dispensatory.'']</ref> native to [[Europe]], and it is also used as a [[homeopathic remedy]].
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Veratrum album, Linn. European White Hellebore. A hardy perennial 3-4 ft. high: root short, fleshy: lvs. green, plicate; radical lvs. 1 ft. long, oblong, 5-6 in. wide, firm in texture: panicle 1-2 ft. long, dense: fls. whitish inside, greenish outside; segms. oblong-spatulate, crisped-dentate; pedicels almost none. June, July. Eu., N. Asia.
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'''''Veratrum album''''' ('''White Hellebore''', '''European White Hellebore''', '''White Veratrum'''; [[syn.]] ''Veratrum lobelianum'' Bernh.<ref>[http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Veratrum+album ''Veratrum album''] at [[Plants For A Future]]</ref>) is a [[medicinal plant]]<ref>[http://www.henriettesherbal.com/eclectic/felter/veratrum-albu.html Felter, Harvey Wickes. (1922) ''The Eclectic Materia Medica, Pharmacology and Therapeutics.'']</ref><ref>[http://www.henriettesherbal.com/eclectic/kings/veratrum-albu.html Felter, Harvey Wickes;  Lloyd, John Uri. (1898) ''King's American Dispensatory.'']</ref> native to [[Europe]], and it is also used as a [[homeopathic remedy]].
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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Latest revision as of 18:35, 21 October 2009


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Plant Characteristics
Cultivation
Scientific Names

Melanthiaceae >

Veratrum >

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Veratrum album (White Hellebore, European White Hellebore, White Veratrum; syn. Veratrum lobelianum Bernh.[1]) is a medicinal plant[2][3] native to Europe, and it is also used as a homeopathic remedy.


Read about Veratrum album in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Veratrum album, Linn. European White Hellebore. A hardy perennial 3-4 ft. high: root short, fleshy: lvs. green, plicate; radical lvs. 1 ft. long, oblong, 5-6 in. wide, firm in texture: panicle 1-2 ft. long, dense: fls. whitish inside, greenish outside; segms. oblong-spatulate, crisped-dentate; pedicels almost none. June, July. Eu., N. Asia.


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References

  1. ↑ Veratrum album at Plants For A Future
  2. ↑ Felter, Harvey Wickes. (1922) The Eclectic Materia Medica, Pharmacology and Therapeutics.
  3. ↑ Felter, Harvey Wickes; Lloyd, John Uri. (1898) King's American Dispensatory.

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