Plant Details

Accepted name:: Eriodictyon californicum (Hook. & Arn.) Decne. [Boraginaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
balsambuske	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
california yerba santa	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
california yerbasanta	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
consumptive's weed	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
eriodictyon californicum	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
gum plant	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
hierba santa	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
mountain balm	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
yerba santa	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
yerba-santa	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)

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

Kew's taxonomic resources include 9 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Eriodictyon glutinosum Benth. Bot. Voy. Sulphur: 36 (1844).
Eriodictyon californicum subsp. australe Brand in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 251: 141 (1913).
Eriodictyon californicum subvar. coarctatum Brand in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 251: 142 (1913).
Eriodictyon californicum subsp. glutinosum (Benth.) Brand in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 251: 141 (1913).
Eriodictyon californicum f. latifolium Brand in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 251: 141 (1913).
Eriodictyon californicum f. linearis Brand Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 4: 224 (1912).
Eriodictyon californicum var. pubens Brand in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 251: 142 (1913).
Eriodictyon glutinosum var. serratum Choisy in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 10: 183 (1846).
Wigandia californica Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey Voy.: 364 (1839).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Eriodictyon californicum	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
Eriodictyon californicum (Hook. & Arn.) Decne.	SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Eriodictyon californicum (Hook. & Arn.) Torr.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Eriodictyon californicum (Hook.&arn.)torr.	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Eriodictyon californicum Greene	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
Eriodictyon glutinosum	Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Eriodictyon glutinosum Benth.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)

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