Plant Details

Accepted name:: Silene stellata (L.) Coyte [Caryophyllaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
widowsfrill	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 6 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Cucubalus stellatus L. Sp. Pl.: 414 (1753).
Evactoma stellata (L.) Raf. Autik. Bot.: 23 (1840).
Evactoma stellata var. scabrella Nieuwl. Amer. Midl. Naturalist 3: 58 (1913).
Silene scabrella (Nieuwl.) G.N.Jones Trans. Illinois State Acad. Sci. 35: 71 (1942).
Silene stellata var. scabrella (Nieuwl.) E.J.Palmer & Steyerm. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 25: 781 (1938).
Viscago stellata (L.) Rchb. Mag. Aesthet. Bot.: t. 27 (1823).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Silene stellata (L.) Ait. f.	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
Silene stellata (L.) W.T. Aiton	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Silene stellata (L.) W.T.Aiton	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)

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