Taxon: Chamaelirium luteum (L.) A. Gray

Common names:

• blazing-star   (Source: Herbs Commerce ) – English
  
• devil's-bit   (Source: Harv Pap Bot 2:150.) – English
  
• fairy-wand   (Source: Herbs Commerce ) – English
  
• false unicorn   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – English
  
• false unicorn-root   (Source: Herbs Commerce ) – English
  
• helonias   (Source: Harv Pap Bot 2:151.) – English
  

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide Harv Pap Bot 2:151. 1997; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Ontario
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Arkansas, Florida [n.], Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia

References:

• American Herbal Products Association. 1992. Herbs of commerce. (Herbs Commerce)
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage. (Zander ed14)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• Jones, G. N. & G. D. Fuller. 1955. Vascular plants of Illinois. (F IllJones)
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Ohio Flora Committee (E. L. Braun, T. S. Cooperrider, T. R. Fisher, J. J. Furlow). 1967–. The vascular flora of Ohio. (F Ohio)
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. (F Carolin)
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora. (Eur Gard F)
• Zomlefer, W. F. 1997. The genera of Melanthiaceae in the southeastern United States. Harvard Pap. Bot. 2:149–152.

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Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Chamaelirium luteum. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (=) Helonias dioica (Walter) Pursh
  
• (=) Melanthium dioicum Walter
  

Check other databases for Chamaelirium luteum (L.) A. Gray:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

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