Plant Details

Accepted name:: Veronicastrum virginicum (L.) Farw. [Plantaginaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
black	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
black root	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
blackroot	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
bowman s root	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bowman's	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
bowman's-root	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
brinton root	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
culver	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
culver s physic	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
culver s root	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
culver's	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
culver's physic	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
culver's root	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
culver's-	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
culver's-root	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
culverpsyic	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
culvers root	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
culverwortel	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
culverwurzel	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
kransveronika	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
leptandra	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
leptandra root	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
leptandra virginica	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
physic root	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tall-speedwell	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
root		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 34 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Leptandra virginica (L.) Nutt. Gen. N. Amer. Pl. 1: 7 (1818).
Veronica virginica L. Sp. Pl.: 9 (1753).
Calistachya alba Raf. Med. Repos. Original Essays Intelligence Phys. 5: 352 (1808).
Callistachya virginica (L.) Raf. Med. Repos. 5: 60 (1808).
Callistachya virginica var. lanceolata Farw. Rep. (Annual) Michigan Acad. Sci. 17: 176 (1916).
Callistachya virginica var. purpurea (Raf.) Farw. Rep. (Annual) Michigan Acad. Sci. 17: 177 (1916).
Eustachya alba Raf. Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys. 6: 97 (1820), nom. superfl.
Eustachya purpurea Raf. Amer. Monthly Mag. & Crit. Rev. 4: 190 (1819).
Eustachya villosa (Raf.) Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4: 56 (1838).
Eustaxia alba Raf. Fl. Tellur. 1: 56 (1837).
Eustaxia japonica Raf. Fl. Tellur. 1: 56 (1837).
Eustaxia purpurea (Raf.) Raf. Fl. Tellur. 1: 56 (1837).
Eustaxia sibirica Raf. Fl. Tellur. 1: 56 (1837).
Leptandra alba Raf. Med. Fl. 2: 21 (1830).
Leptandra caerulea Raf. Med. Fl. 2: 21 (1830).
Leptandra oppositifolia Raf. New Fl. 2: 21 (1837).
Leptandra purpurea (Raf.) Raf. Med. Fl. 2: 20 (1830).
Leptandra villosa Raf. Med. Fl. 2: 21 (1830).
Leptandra virginica var. incarnata G.Don Gen. Hist. 4: 579 (1837).
Leptandra virginica var. purpurea Pursh ex Eaton Man. Bot. N. States, ed. 5: 275 (1829).
Paederota virginica (L.) Torr. Fl. New York 2: 44 (1843).
Veronica diversifolia Steud. Nomencl. Bot. 1: 876 (1821), not validly publ.
Veronica purpurea Steud. Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 2: 759 (1841), not validly publ.
Veronica quinquefolia Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. 1: 28 (1812).
Veronica virginica var. hirsuta N.Coleman Cat. Fl. Pl. S. Pen. Michigan: 27 (1874).
Veronica virginica f. purpurea (Pursh ex Eaton) Fosberg Castanea 20: 59 (1955).
Veronicastrum album Moench Methodus: 437 (1794).
Veronicastrum diversifolium Moench Suppl. Meth.: 158 (1802).
Veronicastrum rubellum Moench Methodus: 437 (1794).
Veronicastrum virginicum var. lanceolatum Farw. Druggists' Circ. 61: 231 (1917).
Veronicastrum virginicum var. purpureum (Pursh ex Eaton) Farw. Rep. (Annual) Michigan Acad. Sci. 20: 188 (1918).
Veronicastrum virginicum f. purpureum (Pursh ex Eaton) Farw. Rep. (Annual) Michigan Acad. Sci. 21: 370 (1919 publ. 1920).
Veronicastrum virginicum f. roseum Farw. Rep. (Annual) Michigan Acad. Sci. 21: 370 (1919 publ. 1920).
Veronicastrum virginicum f. villosa Pennell Rhodora 23: 6 (1921).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Leptandra virginica	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
Leptandra virginica Nutt.	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Veronica virginica	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Veronica virginica L.	Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
Veronicastrum virginicum	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Veronicastrum virginicum (L.) Farw.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2019 (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2024 (WHO-UMC, 2024) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)

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