Actaea
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{{Taxobox | color = lightgreen | name = Actaea | image = Actaea erythrocarpa0.jpg | image_width = 200px | image_caption = Actaea erythrocarpa | regnum = Plantae | divisio = Magnoliophyta | classis = Magnoliopsida | ordo = Ranunculales | familia = Ranunculaceae | genus = Actaea | genus_authority = L. | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text. }}
Actaea (bugbane) is a genus of eight species of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
The genus is closely related to Cimicifuga, and some botanists include that genus within Actaea; if included, the number of species in Actaea rises to 20-26.
- Selected species
- Actaea alba - White Baneberry, White Cohosh
- Actaea asiatica
- Actaea erythrocarpa
- Actaea pachypoda
- Actaea rubra - Red Baneberry
- Actaea spicata - Herb Christopher, Eurasian Baneberry
Actaea is recorded as a food plant for the larva of the Dot Moth.
 Actaea pachypoda (White Baneberry) |
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External links
Eclectic herbal information
- Actaea alba (White Cohosh) King's American Dispensatory @ Henriette's Herbal
- Cimicifuga racemosa (Black Cohosh, Macrotys) King's American Dispensatory @ Henriette's Herbal
- Baneberry Mrs. Grieve's "A Modern Herbal" @ Botanical.com
- Cohosh, Black Mrs. Grieve's "A Modern Herbal" @ Botanical.com
Herbal information
- Cimicifuga (Actea) racemosa (Black Cohosh) HerbMed
- Black Cohosh (pdf) Longwood Herbal Task Force
- Black Cohosh Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre
Homeopathic information
- Actaea racemosa (act-r.)(cimic.) "Kent's Lectures on Homeopathic Materia Medica" by Dr Robert Séror
- Actaea spicta (act-sp.) "A Primer of Materia Medica for practitioners of Homœopathy" by Timothy AllenTemplate:Plant-stub