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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

1) Ground ivy in English is the name of a plant defined with Caltha palustris in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Caltha palustris var. radicans (T.F. Forst.) A. Gray (among others).

2) Ground ivy is also identified with Glechoma hederacea It has the synonym Hedera terrestris Garsault (etc.).

3) Ground ivy is also identified with Glechoma longituba It has the synonym Glechoma brevituba Kuprian. (etc.).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Labiatarum Genera et Species (1834)
· Regnum Vegetabile, or ‘a Series of Handbooks for the Use of Plant Taxonomists and Plant Geographers’ (1993)
· Arkiv för Botanik (1967)
· Bot. Žurn. (2002)
· Bot. Journal of the Linnean Society (2006)
· Acta Facultatis Rerum Naturalium Universitatis Comenianae, Botanica (1988)

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