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Encyclopedia > Actaea
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Actaea

Actaea erythrocarpa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Ranunculales
Family: Ranunculaceae
Genus: Actaea
Species

Actaea alba - Doll's-eyes,
White baneberry, White cohosh
Actaea rubra - Red baneberry
Actaea spicata - Herb christopher,
Eurasian baneberry
Actaea x ludovici - Actea Image File history File links Actaea_erythrocarpa0. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are a major group of land plants. ... Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ... Families See text The Ranunculales are an order of flowering plants, which belong among the basal eudicots. ... Genera See text The Ranunculaceae are a family of flowers in the order Ranunculales. ...

Actaea (the "bugbanes") are a genus of plants belonging to the buttercup family Ranunculaceae. In biology, a genus (plural genera) is a grouping in the classification of living organisms having one or more related and morphologically similar species. ... Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a... Genera See text The Ranunculaceae are a family of flowers in the order Ranunculales. ...


Actaea is recorded as a food plant for the larva of the Dot Moth. Members of this genus are still often referred to as members of Cimicifuga. However, that latter term has been superceded in modern scientific thinking. A larva (Latin; plural larvae) is a juvenile form of animal with indirect development, undergoing metamorphosis (for example, insects or amphibians). ... Binomial name Melanchra persicariae Linnaeus, 1761 The Dot Moth (Melanchra persicariae) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. ...

White Baneberry (Actaea pachypoda)
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White Baneberry (Actaea pachypoda)

Contents

ImageMetadata File history File links Actaea-pachypoda. ... ImageMetadata File history File links Actaea-pachypoda. ...


External links

Eclectic herbal information

  • Actaea alba (White Cohosh) King's American Dispensatory @ Henriette's Herbal
  • Cimicifuga racemosa (Black Cohosh, Macrotys) King's American Dispensatory @ Henriette's Herbal
  • Baneberry Mrs. Grieve's "A Modern Herbal" @ Botanical.com
  • Cohosh, Black Mrs. Grieve's "A Modern Herbal" @ Botanical.com

Herbal information

  • Cimicifuga (Actea) racemosa (Black Cohosh) HerbMed
  • Black Cohosh (pdf) Longwood Herbal Task Force
  • Black Cohosh Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre

Homeopathic information

  • Actaea racemosa (act-r.)(cimic.) "Kent's Lectures on Homeopathic Materia Medica" by Dr Robert Séror
  • Actaea spicta (act-sp.) "A Primer of Materia Medica for practitioners of Homœopathy" by Timothy Allen

  Results from FactBites:
 
PLANTS Profile for Actaea (baneberry) | USDA PLANTS (99 words)
Actaea L. View 25 genera in Ranunculaceae or click below on a thumbnail map or name for species profiles.
Actaea L. Click on a scientific name below to expand it in the PLANTS Classification Report.
Actaea L. View species account and distribution map from Flora of North America (FNA).
Actaea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (271 words)
Actaea (baneberry or bugbane) is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
Actaea is recorded as a food plant for the larva of the Dot Moth.
Hoffman, M. The phylogeny of Actaea (Ranunculaceae): a biogeographical approach.
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