Plant Details

Accepted name:: Cicuta virosa 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:
cicuta virosa	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
cowbane	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
du qin	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
european water-hemlock	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
long-leaved water hemlock	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
mackenzie's water hemlock	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
northern water hemlock	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
sprängört	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
water hemlock	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
water-hemlock	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
毒芹	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
毒芹根	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

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

Kew's taxonomic resources include 25 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Cicuta virosa var. latisecta Čelak. Prodr. Fl. Böhmen: 563 (1875).
Cicuta angustifolia Kit. ex Schult. Oestr. Fl., ed. 2, 1: 515 (1814).
Cicuta baldacciana Degen ex Bald. Itin. Alban.: 180 (1917).
Cicuta cellulosa Gilib. Fl. Lit. Inch. 2: 36 (1782), opus utique oppr.
Cicuta mackenzieana Raup J. Arnold Arbor. 17: 279 (1936).
Cicuta nipponica Franch. Bull. Soc. Bot. France 26: 85 (1879).
Cicuta orientalis Degen Math. Term. Közlem. 36: 38 (1896).
Cicuta pumila Behm Bot. Not. 1887: 180 (1887).
Cicuta tenuifolia Schrank Denkschr. Königl. Akad. Wiss. München 7: 56 (1818).
Cicuta virosa f. angustifolia (Kit.) Regel Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint Pétersbourg, Sér. 7, 4(4): 68 (1861).
Cicuta virosa var. angustifolia (Kit.) Schltdl. Fl. Berol. 1: 167 (1823).
Cicuta virosa var. angustisecta Čelak. Prodr. Fl. Böhmen: 563 (1875).
Cicuta virosa var. intermedia Glaab Deutsche Bot. Monatsschr. 11: 77 (1894).
Cicuta virosa var. latifolia Schltdl. Fl. Berol. 1: 167 (1823).
Cicuta virosa f. latisecta (Čelak.) Y.C.Chu in P.Y.Fu (ed.), Clavis Pl. Chinae Bor.-Or., ed. 2: 467 (1995).
Cicuta virosa f. longiinvolucellata Y.C.Chu Fl. Pl. Herb. Chin. Bor.-Or. 6: 293 (1977).
Cicuta virosa var. nipponica (Franch.) Makino Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 19: 88 (1905).
Cicuta virosa var. orientalis Bald. Malpighia 1891: 39 (1891).
Cicuta virosa var. stricta Schultz Prodr. Fl. Starg. Suppl. 1: 17 (1819).
Cicuta virosa var. tenuifolia (Schrank) Roth Enum. Pl. Phaen. Germ. 1(1): 890 (1827).
Cicutaria aquatica Lam. Fl. Franç. 3: 445 (1779).
Cicutaria virosa (L.) Delarbre Fl. Auvergne, ed. 2: 415 (1800).
Coriandrum cicuta Roth Tent. Fl. Germ. 1: 130 (1788).
Selinum virosum (L.) E.H.L.Krause in J.W.Sturm, Deutschl. Fl. Abbild., ed. 2. 12: 44 (1904).
Sium cicuta F.H.Wigg. Prim. Fl. Holsat.: 24 (1780).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Cicuta virosa	Europe's Med. Pl. (Lange, 1998) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Cicuta virosa L.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Cicuta virosa L. var. latisecta Čelak.	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Cicuta virosa Linnaeus	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)

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