Plant Details

Accepted name:: Ephedra viridis Coville [Ephedraceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
brigham tea	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
desert tea	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
green ephedra	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
green mormon tea	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
mormon tea	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
mormonefedra	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 2 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Ephedra nevadensis subvar. pluribracteata Stapf Denkschr. Kaiserl. Akad. Wiss., Wien. Math.-Naturwiss. Kl. 56(2): 83 (1889).
Ephedra nevadensis var. viridis (Coville) M.E.Jones Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 2, 5: 726 (1895).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Ephedra viridis Coville	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) 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)

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