Taxon: Veratrum viride Aiton

See also subordinate taxa:

• Veratrum viride var. eschscholtzianum (no accessions)
• Veratrum viride var. viride (no accessions)

Common names:

• American false hellebore   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• American white-hellebore   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• American-hellebore   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – English
  
• giant false helleborine   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• green false hellebore   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• green veratrum   (Source: Zander Ency ) – English
  
• Indian poke   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• itchweed   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• vérâtre verti   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• grüner Germer   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• grön nysrot   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; F CalifJep)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Non-vertebrate poisons: plant pest control   (fide Mansf Ency)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury; Lampe & McCann)
  
• Weed   (fide Biology of Canadian weeds 79. 1995)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Veratrum viride from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Subarctic America: Canada - Northwest Territory, Yukon Territory; United States - Alaska
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, British Columbia
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. [poisonous].
• Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann. 1985. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants. [poisonous].
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Mulligan, G. A. & D. B. Munro. 1995. The biology of Canadian weeds. 79:272–281.
• Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system (on-line resource).
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
• Seymour, F. 1969. The flora of New England.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Veratrum viride.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Veratrum viride.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Veratrum viride.

Synonyms:

• Veratrum eschscholtzii A. Gray [= Veratrum viride var. eschscholtzianum]
  
• Veratrum lobelianum var. eschscholtzianum Schult. & Schult. f. [≡ Veratrum viride var. eschscholtzianum]
  

Check other web resources for Veratrum viride Aiton:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• 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.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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