Euphrasia — 1 species

Botanical species in the genus Euphrasia recorded in the PlantPeers database.

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Euphrasia officinalis

Euphrasia officinalis

Family: Orobanchaceae

Cultivation

Succeeds in most soils, preferring chalk or limestone. Eyebright is a semi-parasitic plant, growing on the roots of various species of grass and also on Trifolium pratense and Plantago species. The grass does not seem to suffer unduly from this parasitism since eyebright is an annual and its cells do not penetrate very deeply into the grass.

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