Plant Details

Accepted name:: Ambrosia tenuifolia Spreng. [Asteraceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
altamisa	Other	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)
ambrosia tenuifolia whole	Other	Global Substance Registration System (GSRS) (FDA/NCATS, 2024)
field ragweed	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
slender ragweed	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
slimleaf bur ragweed	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
slimleaf burr ragweed	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
aerial parts, aerial parts, pollen	dried aerial parts	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 7 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Franseria tenuifolia Harv. & A.Gray Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, n.s., 4(1): 80 (1849).
Ambrosia fruticosa DC. Prodr. 5: 525 (1836), nom. illeg.
Ambrosia longistylis Nutt. Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n.s., 7: 344 (1840).
Ambrosia maritima Vell. Fl. Flumin. 10: t. 26 (1831), sensu auct.
Ambrosia simulans Shinners Field & Lab. 17: 173 (1949).
Gaertneria tenuifolia (Harv. & A.Gray) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 339 (1891).
Xanthidium tenuifolium Delpino Studi Lign. Anemof.: 62 (1871).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Ambrosia tenuifolia	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Ambrosia tenuifolia Spreng.	Global Substance Registration System (GSRS) (FDA/NCATS, 2024) Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Franseria tenuifolia	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)

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