Plant Details

Accepted name:: Epilobium angustifolium L. [Onagraceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies:: 3

Epilobium angustifolium subsp. angustifolium

Epilobium angustifolium subsp. circumvagum Mosquin

Epilobium angustifolium subsp. macrophyllum (Hausskn.) Hultén

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
blooming sally	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
fireweed	Other	Food & Med. in Rural Sweden, Ukraine & NW Russia (Stryamets et al., 2015) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
french-willow	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
great willow herb	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
great willow-herb	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
great willowherb	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
mjölke	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
ngo duk nyung mar po	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
purple firetop	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
rose-bay willow-herb	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
rosebay willowherb	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
schmalblättrig weidenröschen	Other	Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021)
sngo dug mo nyung dmar po	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
wickup	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
willow herb	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021)
willow-herb	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
willowherb	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
иван-чай	Other	Food & Med. in Rural Sweden, Ukraine & NW Russia (Stryamets et al., 2015)
іван чай	Other	Food & Med. in Rural Sweden, Ukraine & NW Russia (Stryamets et al., 2015)
སྔོ་དུག་ཉུང་དམར་པོ།	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
糯芋	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
红筷子	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
红筷子冠毛	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 3 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Chamaenerion angustifolium (L.) Scop. Fl. Carniol., ed. 2, 1: 271 (1771).
Chamerion angustifolium (L.) Holub Folia Geobot. Phytotax. 7: 86 (1972).
Pyrogennema angustifolium (L.) Lunell Amer. Midl. Naturalist 4: 382 (1916).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Chamacnerion angustifolium (L.) Scop.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Chamaenerion angustifo-lium (L.) Scop.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Chamaenerion angustifolium (L. ) Scop.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Chamaenerion angustifolium (L.) Scop.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Chamaenerium angustifolium (L.) Scop.	Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021)
Chamerion angustifolium (L.) Holub	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Chamerion angustifolium (L.) Holub subsp. angustifolium	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Epilobium angustifolium	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
Epilobium angustifolium L.	Food & Med. in Rural Sweden, Ukraine & NW Russia (Stryamets et al., 2015) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Epilobium angustifolium L. ssp. angustifolium	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)

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