Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Latin names; Binomial nomenclature)

Zigadenus elegans Pursh is the name of a plant defined in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in modern medicine, Ayurveda, and other local traditions or folk medicine. It has the following synonyms: Anticlea alpina A. Heller, Anticlea alpina (Blank.) A. Heller, Anticlea chlorantha (Richardson) Rydb., Anticlea coloradensis (Rydb.) Rydb., Anticlea elegans Rydb., Anticlea elegans (Pursh) Rydb., Anticlea glauca (Nutt.) Kunth, Anticlea gracilenta (Greene) R.R. Gates, Anticlea longa (Greene) A. Heller, Anticlea mohinorensis (Greenm.) R.R. Gates, Evonyxis glauca (Nutt.) Raf., Gomphostylis bracteata (Sims) Raf., Helonias bracteata Sims, Leimanthium glaucum (Nutt.) Schult. & Schult.f., Melanthium glaucum Nutt., Melanthium hultgreenii Thunb., Zigadenus alpinus Blank., Zigadenus bracteatus (Sims) Sweet, Zigadenus canadensis Baker, Zigadenus chloranthus Richardson, Zigadenus chloranthus var. major Hook., Zigadenus coloradensis Rydb., Zigadenus commutatus Schult. & Schult.f., Zigadenus dilatatus Greene, Zigadenus elegans subsp. glaucus (Nutt.) Hultén, Zigadenus elegans var. coloradensis (Rydb.) M.E. Jones, Zigadenus elegans var. glaucus (Nutt.) Preece ex Cronquist, Zigadenus glaucus (Nutt.) Nutt., Zigadenus gracilentus Greene, Zigadenus longus Greene, Zigadenus mohinorensis Greenm., Zigadenus speciosus Douglas ex Hook., Zigadenus speciosus var. minor Greene, Zigadenus washakie A. Nelson.

References regarding Zigadenus elegans Pursh for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity:

· Flora Boreali-Americana (1803)
· Flora Americae Septentrionalis (1814)
· Enumeratio Plantarum Omnium Hucusque Cognitarum (1843)
· Pittonia (1901)
· Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1903)
· Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (1903)
· Sci. Stud. Montana Coll. Agric., Bot. (1905)
· Muhlenbergia (1910)
· Bull. Montana State Univ., Biol. Ser. (1910)
· Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany (1918)
· Univ. Wyoming Publ. Sci., Bot. (1926)
· Botaniska Notiser (1973)
· Taxon (1981)

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

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