Plant Details

Accepted name:: Erigeron annuus (L.) Desf [Asteraceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
annual fleabane	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
bái mǎ lán	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
daisy fleabane	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
eastern daisy fleabane	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
einjähriger feinstrahl	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
erigeron	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
fleabane	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
nǚ wǎn	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
qiān zhāng cǎo	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
sommarbinka	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
sweet-scabious	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
tall fleabane	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
whitetop	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
yóu má cǎo	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
yě hāo	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
yī nián féng	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
yī nián péng	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
一年蓬	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
一年逢	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
千张草	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
女菀	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
油麻草	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
白马兰	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
野蒿	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
whole shoot system, root		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 23 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Aster annuus L. Sp. Pl.: 875 (1753), nom. cons. prop.
Erigeron heterophyllus Muhl. ex Willd. Sp. Pl., ed. 4. 3: 1956 (1803).
Aster stenactis E.H.L.Krause in J.W.Sturm, Deutschl. Fl. Abbild., ed. 2. 13: 54 (1905).
Cineraria corymbosa Moench Methodus: 588 (1794).
Diplopappus annuus Bluff & Fingerh. Comp. Fl. German. 2: 368 (1825).
Diplopappus dubius Cass. Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris 1817: 137 (1817).
Doronicum bellidiflorum Schrank Baier. Fl. 2: 400 (1789).
Erigeron annuus subsp. annuus
Erigeron annuus var. discoideus (Vict. & J.Rousseau) Cronquist Brittonia 6: 266 (1947).
Erigeron annuus f. discoideus Vict. & J.Rousseau Contr. Inst. Bot. Univ. Montréal 36: 61 (1940).
Erigeron annuus subsp. lilacinus Sennikov & Kurtto Memoranda Soc. Fauna Fl. Fenn. 95: 47 (2019).
Erigeron annuus var. typicus Cronquist Brittonia 6: 266 (1947), not validly publ.
Erigeron bellidioides Spenn. Fl. Friburg. 2: 536 (1826).
Erigeron diversifolius Rich. ex Rchb. Fl. Germ. Excurs. 1: 239 (1831).
Erigeron lilacinus (Sennikov & Kurtto) Sennikov Wulfenia 27: 2 (2020).
Erigeron strigosus Bigelow Fl. Boston., ed. 2.: 302 (1824), nom. illeg.
Phalacroloma acutifolium Cass. in G.-F.Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat., ed. 2. 39: 405 (1826), nom. superfl.
Phalacroloma annuum (L.) Dumort. ex F.Mull. Spic. Fl. Bruxelloise: 64 (1862).
Pulicaria annua Gaertn. Fruct. Sem. Pl. 2: 462 (1791).
Pulicaria bellidiflora Wallr. Sched. Crit.: 483 (1822).
Stenactis annua Cass. in G.-F.Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat., ed. 2. 37: 485 (1825).
Stenactis annua (L.) Cass. ex Less. Syn. Gen. Compos.: 189 (1832).
Stenactis dubia Cass. in G.-F.Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat., ed. 2. 37: 485 (1825).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Aster annus L.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Erigeron annuus	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Erigeron annuus (L.) Pers.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. Pl. in the Med.: Project Rubia (Gonzalez-Tejero et al., 2008) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Erigeron annuus Persoon	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Erigeron heterophyllus Kunth et Bouché	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)

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