Onagraceae FAMILY

Circaea lutetiana

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Circaea lutetiana is a herbaceous perennial plant growing from a rhizomatous rootstock. It can grow 15 - 150cm tall, spreading by the roots and forming colonies[ 17 Title Flora of the British Isles. Publication Author Clapham, Tutin and Warburg. Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 1962 ISBN - Description A very comprehensive flora, the standard reference book but it has no pictures. , 266 Title Flora of China Publication Author Website http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/ Publisher Missouri Botanical Garden Press; St. Louis. Year 1994 ISBN Description An excellent, comprehensive resource in 25 volumes. In addition to the botanical information the flora also gives basic information on habitat and some uses. An on-line version is also available. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine..

Habitat & Origin

Origintemperate

Native RangeTemprate Eurasia - Atlantic Coast to the Pacific, excluding eastern Siberia; N. America - Manitoba to Ontario, to Mississippi, Georgia; N. Africa

HabitatWoods and shady places on a moist, base-rich soil, throughout Britain to 360 metres[ 17 Title Flora of the British Isles. Publication Author Clapham, Tutin and Warburg. Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 1962 ISBN - Description A very comprehensive flora, the standard reference book but it has no pictures. ]. Cool-temperate deciduous forests and mixed deciduous-boreal forests; at elevations from near sea level to around 1,500 metres[ 266 Title Flora of China Publication Author Website http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/ Publisher Missouri Botanical Garden Press; St. Louis. Year 1994 ISBN Description An excellent, comprehensive resource in 25 volumes. In addition to the botanical information the flora also gives basic information on habitat and some uses. An on-line version is also available. ].