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Green false hellebore (Veratrum viride) is a perennial plant that grows from small leek-like shoots in the spring to a medium-sized plant with spectacular leaves. It is known for being extremely toxic. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms (as opposed to folk taxonomy). ...
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 fern...
Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. ...
Liliopsida is the botanical name for a class. ...
Families Alstroemeriaceae Campynemataceae Colchicaceae Corsiaceae Liliaceae Luzuriagaceae Melanthiaceae Philesiaceae Ripogonaceae Smilacaceae Liliales is an order of monocotyledonous flowering plants. ...
Genera See text The family Melanthiaceae (formerly Trilliaceae) consists of a number of genera petaloid, lilioid monocot flowering plants. ...
In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal method of naming species. ...
William Aiton (1731 - February 2, 1793) was a Scottish botanist. ...
A Red Valerian, a perennial plant. ...
Binomial name Allium tricoccum Wild leeks (Allium tricoccum), also known as ramps are a member of the onion family (Alliaceae). ...
In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant organ specialized for photosynthesis. ...
Toxic redirects here, but this is also the name of a song by Britney Spears; see Toxic (song) Look up toxic and toxicity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Botanical properties The adult plant can reach 3 to 5 feet, with even extra length when a floral stem is present. It has a solid white stem with large, broad alternate leaves ending in a short point, heavily ribbed and hairy on the underside. It grows numerous 2 cm lime-green to citrus-yellow flowers in a large inflorescence. Rarely goes into flowers. Clivia miniata bears bright orange flowers. ...
An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers on a branch of a plant. ...
Veratrum species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Setaceous Hebrew Character. A larva (Latin; plural larvae) is a juvenile form of animal with indirect development, undergoing metamorphosis (for example, insects or amphibians). ...
Super Families Butterflies Hesperioidea Papilionoidea Moths Micropterigoidea Heterobathmioidea Eriocranioidea Acanthopteroctetoidea Lophocoronoidea Neopseustoidea Mnesarchaeoidea Hepialoidea Nepticuloidea Incurvarioidea Palaephatoidea Tischeriodea Simaethistoidea Tineoidea Gracillarioidea Yponomeutoidea Gelechioidea Zygaenoidea Sesioidea Cossoidea Tortricoidea Choreutoida Urodoidea Galacticoidea Schreckensteinioidea Epermenioidea Pterophoroidea Aluctoidea Immoidea Axioidea Hyblaeoidea Thyridoidea Whalleyanoidea Pyraloidea Mimallonoidea Lasiocampoidea Geometroidea Drepanoidea Bombycoidea Calliduloidae Hedyloidea Noctuoidea Families About...
Binomial name Xestia c-nigrum Linnaeus, 1758 The Setaceous Hebrew Character (Xestia c-nigrum) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. ...
Ecological Green false hellebore is found in wet areas of forests. It prefers deciduous forest but is also found well in the north of boreal forest.
Distribution and multiplication Green false hellebore is found from the Alaska through the Olympic, Cascade Range and Rocky Mountains south down to northern California. In the east, its distribution goes from Georgia north to Labrador. Mount Adams in Washington The Cascade Range is a mountainous region famous for its chain of tall volcanoes called the High Cascades that run north-south along the west coast of North America from British Columbia to the Shasta Cascade area of northern California. ...
White Goat Wilderness Area, Alberta, Canada Longs Peak of the Rocky Mountains as depicted on the Colorado state quarter The Rocky Mountains, often called the Rockies, are a broad mountain range in western North America. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 3rd 158,302 sq mi 410,000 km² 250 miles 400 km 770 miles 1,240 km 4. ...
This article is about the region in Canada. ...
The plant multiplies through its rhizome and seeds. Ginger rhizome In botany, a rhizome is a usually-underground, horizontal stem of a plant that often sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. ...
Medicine The plant is highly toxic, causing nausaea and vomiting. If the poison is not evacuated, cold sweat and vertigo appears. Respiration slows, cardiac rhythm and blood pressure falls, eventually leading to death. It has been suggested that Gas exchange be merged into this article or section. ...
Blood pressure is the pressure exerted by the blood on the walls of the blood vessels. ...
It is used externally by several Amerindian nations for external treatment. Although is rarely ever used modern herbary due to its concentration of various alkaloids, it has been used in the past against high blood pressure and rapid heartbeat. The root contains even higher concentrations than the aerial parts. An alkaloid is a nitrogenous organic molecule that has a pharmacological effect on humans and animals. ...
Trivia The plant was used by some tribes to elect a new leader: all the candidates would eat the root, and the last to start vomiting would become the new leader.[1]
Notes - ↑ Fleurbec, p.27
References - http://www.wnps.org/plants/veratrum_viride.html
- http://collections.ic.gc.ca/hazeltons/hellbore.htm
- http://www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/cgi-bin/arr_html?Veratrum+viride&CAN=LATIND
- http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=VEVI
- http://ghs.gresham.k12.or.us/science/ps/nature/gorge/3petal/lily/green.htm wayback machine
- Fleurbec Group (ed), 1981, Plantes cauvages comestibles. Saint-henri-de-Lévis, Quebec, Canada. ISBN 2-920174-03-7
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