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Section Helenium
Helenium
Helenium is a genus of annuals and herbaceous perennial plants in the family Asteraceae, native to the Americas.
They bear yellow or orange daisy-like composite flowers. A number of these species (particularly Helenium autumnale) have the common name sneezeweed, based on the former use of their dried leaves in making snuff. It was inhaled to cause sneezing that would supposedly rid the body of evil spirits. Larger species may grow up to 2 metres (6.6 ft) tall.
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Where it lives
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.156
On the Virtues of Herbs
Macer Floridus (Odo of Meung) · 1090 · p.85
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.274
On Medical Materials in Six Books
Dioscorides · 1550 · p.69
De medicinali materia libri sex
Dioscorides · 1552 · p.75
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.242
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.363
Hortus Eystettensis
Basilius Besler · 1640 · p.358
Herbarius latinus (with French synonyms)
1486 · p.121
Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.150
In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1409550.