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Viper's-grass

Scorzonera humilis

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 2,759, February 2,038, March 3,192, April 5,022, May 7,242, June 7,896, July 8,450, August 7,267, September 5,335, October 3,982, November 2,176, December 1,701.
United States57,060
Alaska57,060
Russia275
Sweden227
Austria182
France157
Niederösterreich110
Germany108
Czechia93
Leningrad oblast77

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

  • Medicinal useListed as having medicinal use by a harvested source. This is not medical advice.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species
  • Pollinator-associated plantDescends from a plant lineage commonly associated with pollinators.Inferred from its group

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderSunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies · Asterales
FamilySunflowers, Daisies, Asters, and Allies · Asteraceae
GenusViper's-grasses · Scorzonera

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