Plant Details

Accepted name:: Heracleum maximum W.Bartram [Apiaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
american cow parsnip	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
arwa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
common cow parsnip	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
common cowparsnip	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
indian celery	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
kakriya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
krandel	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)
pushki	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Whole Plant		Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 18 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Heracleum lanatum Michx. Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 166 (1803).
Heracleum auritum Bisch. Index Seminum (HEID, Heidelbergensi) 1839: 4 (1839).
Heracleum barbatum var. turugisanense (Honda) M.Hiroe Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 14: 5 (1949).
Heracleum douglasii DC. Prodr. 4: 193 (1830).
Heracleum dulce Fisch., C.A.Mey. & Avé-Lall. Index Seminum (LE, Petropolitanus) 9(Suppl.): 23 (1844).
Heracleum lanatum var. asiaticum (M.Hiroe) H.Hara J. Fac. Sci. Univ. Tokyo, Sect. 3, Bot. 6: 92 (1952).
Heracleum lanatum subsp. asiaticum M.Hiroe Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 14: 4 (1949).
Heracleum lanatum f. dissectum (H.Ohba) T.Yamaz. J. Jap. Bot. 76: 320 (2001).
Heracleum lanatum f. rubriflorum (H.Ohba) T.Yamaz. J. Jap. Bot. 76: 320 (2001).
Heracleum moellendorffii var. turugisanense (Honda) Ohwi Bull. Natl. Sci. Mus. Tokyo 33: 81 (1953).
Heracleum sphondylium f. dissectum H.Ohba J. Jap. Bot. 69: 119 (1994).
Heracleum sphondylium var. lanatum (Michx.) Dorn Vasc. Pl. Wyoming: 295 (1988).
Heracleum sphondylium subsp. lanatum (Michx.) Á.Löve & D.Löve Taxon 31: 350 (1982).
Heracleum sphondylium f. rubriflorum H.Ohba J. Jap. Bot. 69: 119 (1994).
Heracleum sphondylium var. turugisanense (Honda) H.Ohba J. Jap. Bot. 69: 119 (1994).
Heracleum turugisanense Honda Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 57: 108 (1943).
Pastinaca lanata Koso-Pol. Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou, n.s., 29: 113 (1915 publ. 1916).
Sphondylium lanatum (Michx.) Greene Man. Bot. San Francisco: 157 (1894).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Heracleum lanatum	Med. Pl. in Russia & C Asia (Mamedov et al., 2005) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Heracleum lanatum Michaux	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Heracleum lanatum Michx.	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2017) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Heracleum maximum Bartr.	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
Heracleum maximum Bartram	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Heracleum maximum Batr.	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
Heracleum maximum W.Bartram	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)

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