Plant Details

Accepted name:: Aegopodium podagraria L. [Apiaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
ash weed	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
ashweed	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
bishop's weed	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
bishop's-weed	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
bishops weed	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020)
castalda	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
egopode	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
geißfuß	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
giersch	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
girardina silvestre	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
goutweed	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
ground elder	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
ground-elder	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
herb-gerard	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
kirskål	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
podagraire	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)

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

Kew's taxonomic resources include 19 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Aegopodium angelicifolium Salisb. Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 169 (1796).
Aegopodium podagraria var. prolifera Gaudin Fl. Helv. 2: 421 (1828).
Aegopodium podagraria var. pubescens Wimm. & Grab. Fl. Siles. 1: 282 (1827).
Aegopodium podagraria var. variegatum L.H.Bailey Cycl. Amer. Hort. 1: 29 (1900).
Aegopodium simplex Lavy État Général Vég. Orig.: 12 (1830).
Aegopodium ternatum Gilib. Fl. Lit. Inch. 2: 41 (1782), opus utique oppr.
Apium biternatum Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. 2: 150 (1812).
Apium podagraria (L.) Caruel in F.Parlatore, Fl. Ital. 8: 467 (1889).
Carum podagraria (L.) Roth Enum. Pl. Phaen. Germ. 1(1): 946 (1827).
Ligusticum podagraria Crantz Stirp. Austr. Fasc. 3: 84 (1767).
Pimpinella angelicifolia Lam. Encycl. 1: 451 (1785).
Podagraria aegopodium Moench Methodus: 90 (1794).
Podagraria erratica Bubani Fl. Pyren. 2: 351 (1899).
Selinum podagraria E.H.L.Krause in J.W.Sturm, Deutschl. Fl. Abbild., ed. 2. 12: 57 (1904).
Seseli aegopodium Scop. Fl. Carniol., ed. 2, 1: 215 (1771).
Sison podagraria Spreng. Mag. Neuesten Entdeck. Gesammten Naturk. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin 6: 260 (1812).
Sium podagraria F.H.Wigg. Prim. Fl. Holsat.: 24 (1780).
Sium vulgare Bernh. Syst. Verz. Erf.: 173 (1800).
Tragoselinum angelica Lam. Fl. Franç. 3: 449 (1779).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Aegopodium podagraria	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Aegopodium podagraria L.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)

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