Plant Details

Accepted name:: Lycopus virginicus L. [Lamiaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
american bugleweed	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
amerikansk strandklo	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
bugle weed	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
bugleweed	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
lycopi herba	Pharmaceutical	E-Kommission: Approved Status (1984-1994)
lycopus	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
lycopus virginicus	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
su ferasyunu	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
sweet bugle	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
virginia bugleweed	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
virginia water horehound	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
virginia waterhorehound	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
water bugle	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
water horehound	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
water-bugle	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
wolfstrappkraut	Other	E-Kommission: Approved Status (1984-1994)

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

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

Euhemus officinalis Raf. Autik. Bot.: 115 (1840).
Euhemus sylvaticus Raf. Autik. Bot.: 116 (1840).
Lycopus macrophyllus Benth. Labiat. Gen. Spec.: 185 (1833).
Lycopus virginicus var. macrophyllus (Benth.) A.Gray Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 8: 285 (1870).
Lycopus virginicus var. pauciflorus Benth. Labiat. Gen. Spec.: 185 (1833).
Lycopus virginicus var. quercifolius Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept. 1: 16 (1814).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Lycopus virginicus	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Lycopus virginicus L.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) 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) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009) 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)
Lycopus virginicus Linné	E-Kommission: Approved Status (1984-1994)

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