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Eyebright

Euphrasia officinalis

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 484, February 357, March 560, April 881, May 1,270, June 1,385, July 1,482, August 1,275, September 936, October 698, November 382, December 298.
United States10,081
Alaska10,008
Austria182
Italy132
Canada99
Germany96
Nord-Est70
Czechia68
Nord-Ovest61
Switzerland60

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
  • ParasiteDescends from a lineage whose members commonly live parasitically on another organism.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
OrderMints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies · Lamiales
Familybroomrape family · Orobanchaceae
Genuseyebrights · Euphrasia

Sources

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