Spigelia anthelmia

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endangered perennial medicinal 2024 1977

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Home Plants angiosperms gentianales loganiaceae spigelia Spigelia anthelmia

1753

west indian pinkroot

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Spigelia anthelmia, the West Indian pinkroot, wormbush, or wormgrass, is a species of flowering plant in the family Loganiaceae. It is native to Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, Florida, and northern South America through to Bolivia and Brazil, and it has been widely introduced to other tropical locales, including western and west-central Africa, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Hainan, and the Bismarck Archipelago. Highly poisonous, it is used as a vermifuge against intestinal worms....read more on Wikipedia.

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