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|familia=Melanthiaceae
| name = White Hellebore
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|genus=Veratrum
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|species=album
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|common_name=White Hellebore
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| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
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|Temp Metric=°F
| divisio = [[Magnoliophyta]]
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| classis = [[Liliopsida]]
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| ordo = [[Liliales]]
 
| familia = [[Melanthiaceae]]
 
| genus = ''[[Veratrum]]''
 
| species = '''''V. album'''''
 
| binomial = ''Veratrum album''
 
| binomial_authority = [[L.]]
 
 
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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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<!--- xxxxx  *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432  -->
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<!--- xxxxx  *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608  -->
  
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[[Category:Liliales]]
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Latest revision as of 18:35, 21 October 2009


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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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