| Accepted name: |
Eryngium maritimum L. |
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| English names: |
Maritime Eryngo
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| Classification: |
Kingdom: Plantae
Divison: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Apiales
Family: Apiaceae
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| OPL Code: |
HERYMA
(to track OPL, Newmaster et al. 1998) |
| Lifeform: |
2.2 |
| Lifecycle: |
P |
| Source database: |
FOIBIS, June 2005-2012 |
| Floristic Affinities: |
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| Distribution: |
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| Ethnobotanical Notes: |
Grown in English herb gardens already before 1500 AD.The roots have been used officinally (diuretic, spasmolytic) in Europe. Young roots and shoots eaten as a vegetable, young leaves consumed as a salad in N Europe and Greece. Formerly candied roots, as those of Eryngium campestre L., valued as aphrodisiac tonic especially in England.Today mainly cultivated for ornament(1). |
| Key Characters: |
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