Swallowwort
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Swallowwort is a term used for several plants and plant families. While the term "Swallowwort" may be derived from description of poisonous effects; there were, in the past plants used medicinally for tonsillitis and referred to as swallowort.
The following plants are referred to as "Swallowwort":
The following plants are referred to as "Swallowwort":
- Any of several vines of the genus CynanchumCynanchumCynanchum is a genus of about 300 species including some swallowworts, belonging to the family Apocynaceae. The taxon name comes from Greek kynos and anchein , referring to the toxicity of these plants. Hence the common name for several species is dog-strangling vine...
, especially black swallowwort (C. nigrum) or white swallowwort (C. vincetoxicum (L.)). - Tetterworts, such as Greater CelandineGreater celandineChelidonium majus is a herbaceous perennial plant, the only species in the genus Chelidonium...
(Chelidonium majus). cynanchumCynanchumCynanchum is a genus of about 300 species including some swallowworts, belonging to the family Apocynaceae. The taxon name comes from Greek kynos and anchein , referring to the toxicity of these plants. Hence the common name for several species is dog-strangling vine...
is from Greek words meaning "to choke a dog." - Greater Celandine and Swallowwort were each often categorized with Tetterworts because they were used to treat Tetter. This led to nomenclature confusion among these worts.
- many plants of the genus AsclepiasAsclepiasAsclepias L. , the milkweeds, is a genus of herbaceous perennial, dicotyledonous plants that contains over 140 known species...
- Euphorbia maculataEuphorbia maculataEuphorbia maculata , is an annual plant in the family Euphorbiaceae, native to North America....
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