Plant Details

Accepted name:: Stellaria media (L.) Vill. [Caryophyllaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies:: 2

Stellaria media subsp. media

Stellaria media subsp. romana Beger

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
alsine	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
armale jhar	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
bin batori	Other	Med. Pl. in Alpine and Sub-Alpine Pakistan (Kayani et al., 2015)
buchbuchaa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
chechra	Other	Weeds & Med. Pl. of Shawar Valley, Pakistan (Islam et al., 2006)
cheridana	Other	Pl. Meds for Musculoskeletal Disorders, N. Pakistan (Malik et al., 2018)
chickweed	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
common chickweed	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
esparguta	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
fan lu	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
habbeila	Other	Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)
herba alsines	Pharmaceutical	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
impontshane	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
ko-ha-kobe	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
kokoon	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
mastruço-do-brejo	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
meshit	Other	Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)
morrião-branco	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
morrião-de-inverno	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
morrião-dos-passarinhos	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
morugem	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
mouron blanc	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
mouron des oiseaux	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
nodding chickweed	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
olalai	Other	Ethnomed. of Marghazar Valley, Pakistan (Yousufzai et al., 2010)
oulalai	Other	Econ. & Ecolog. Important Pl. Commun., Pakistan (Sher & Al Yemeni, 2011) Ethnobot. of Some Pl. Resources in Pakistan (Ali et al., 2011)
pamplina	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
picagallina	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
qezaz	Other	Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)
safed fulki	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
sandhap	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
starweed	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
stellaria	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
stellaria media	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
stellariae media herba	Pharmaceutical	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
stitchwort	Other	National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014) Weeds & Med. Pl. of Shawar Valley, Pakistan (Islam et al., 2006)
vogel-sternmiere	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
vogelmiere	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
våtarv	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
حبيله	Other	Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)
كزاز	Other	Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)
مشت	Other	Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)
‫قاززة‬	Other	National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014)
繁缕	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Whole plant		Med. Pl. in Alpine and Sub-Alpine Pakistan (Kayani et al., 2015)
Whole plant, aerial parts		Pl. Meds for Musculoskeletal Disorders, N. Pakistan (Malik et al., 2018)
Whole plant		Weeds & Med. Pl. of Shawar Valley, Pakistan (Islam et al., 2006)
whole plant		Ethnobot. of Some Pl. Resources in Pakistan (Ali et al., 2011)
whole plant		Econ. & Ecolog. Important Pl. Commun., Pakistan (Sher & Al Yemeni, 2011)
Whole plant		Ethnomed. of Marghazar Valley, Pakistan (Yousufzai et al., 2010)
leaves, aerial parts		Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
whole plant		Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)
herb		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 3 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Alsine media L. Sp. Pl.: 272 (1753).
Stellaria media subsp. typica Bég. Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital., n.s., 17: 351 (1910), not validly publ.
Stellularia media (L.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 52 (1891).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Alsine media L.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Stellaria media	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Stellaria media (L.) Cry.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Stellaria media (L.) Cyr.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Stellaria media (L.) Cyrillo	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
Stellaria media (L.) Vill	Med. Pl. in Alpine and Sub-Alpine Pakistan (Kayani et al., 2015)
Stellaria media (L.) Vill.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Ethnomed. of Marghazar Valley, Pakistan (Yousufzai et al., 2010) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002) National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) Pl. Meds for Musculoskeletal Disorders, N. Pakistan (Malik et al., 2018) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Stellaria media (L.) Vill. subsp. media	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Stellaria media (L.) Villars	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Stellaria media (L.)Vill	Econ. & Ecolog. Important Pl. Commun., Pakistan (Sher & Al Yemeni, 2011)
Stellaria media (L.)Vill.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Stellaria media (Linn.) Vill.	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
Stellaria media (Linnaeus) Villars	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
Stellaria media L.	Ethnobot. of Some Pl. Resources in Pakistan (Ali et al., 2011) Weeds & Med. Pl. of Shawar Valley, Pakistan (Islam et al., 2006)
Stellaria media L. Vill.	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)

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