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snowparsleys
Cnidium
Cnidium is a genus of flowering plant in the Apiaceae, native to Eurasia, Africa and North America. It has 4 or 5 species. Cnidium monnieri (L.) Cuss. is one of the most widely used traditional herbal medicines and its fruits have been used to treat a variety of diseases in China, Vietnam, and Japan. As of this writing, 350 compounds have been isolated and identified from C. monnieri, including the main active constituent, coumarins. In vitro
9 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Monnier's snowparsley
speciesCnidium monnieri
Jakutsk Snowparsley
speciesCnidium cnidiifolium
Cnidium silaifolium
speciesCnidium silaifolium
Cnidium dauricum
speciesCnidium dauricum
Cnidium japonicum
speciesCnidium japonicum
Cnidium salinum
speciesCnidium salinum
Cnidium bhutanicum
speciesCnidium bhutanicum
Cnidium divaricatum
speciesCnidium divaricatum
Cnidium warburgii
speciesCnidium warburgii
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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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 157134.