Aletris, the colicroot, colicweed, crow corn, or unicorn root, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Nartheciaceae, native to North America and to eastern and southeastern Asia, especially China. It was used as a component in Lydia Pinkham's original Vegetable Compound.
Species
Aletris species include:
- Aletris alpestris <small>Diels.</small> - Guizhou, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan
- Aletris aurea <small>Walter</small> - from Texas and Oklahoma to Maryland
- Aletris bracteata <small>Northr.</small> - Florida, Bahamas
- Aletris capitata <small>F.T.Wang & Tang</small> - Sichuan
- Aletris cinerascens <small>F.T.Wang & Tang</small> - Yunnan, Guangxi
- Aletris farinosa <small>L.</small> - Ontario and much of eastern United States
- Aletris foliata <small>(Maxim.) Makino & Nemoto</small> - Korea, Japan
- Aletris foliolosa <small>Stapf</small> - Sumatra, Sabah, Mindoro
- Aletris foliosa <small>(Maxim.) Bureau & Franch.</small> - Japan
- Aletris glabra <small>Bureau & Franch.</small> - Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Tibet, Fujian, Gansu, Guizhou, Hubei, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan
- Aletris glandulifera <small>Bureau & Franch.</small> - Gansu, Shaanxi, Sichuan
- Aletris gracilis <small>Rendle</small> - Nepal, Bhutan, Arunachal Pradesh, Myanmar, Tibet, Yunnan
- Aletris laxiflora <small>Bureau & Franch.</small> - Tibet, Sichuan, Guizhou
- Aletris lutea <small>Small</small> - Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana
- Aletris megalantha <small>F.T.Wang & Tang</small> - Yunnan
- Aletris nana <small>S.C.Chen</small> - Tibet, Yunnan, Nepal
- Aletris obovata <small>Nash</small> - - Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina
- Aletris pauciflora <small>(Klotzsch) Hand.-Mazz</small> - Tibet, Yunnan, Nepal, Bhutan, Assam, Myanmar, northern India
- Aletris pedicellata <small>F.T.Wang & Tang</small> - Sichuan
- Aletris scopulorum <small>Dunn</small> - Shikoku, Fujian, Guangdong, Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang
- Aletris simpliciflora <small>R.Li & Shu D.Zhang</small> - Tibet
- Aletris spicata <small>(Thunb.) Franch.</small> - Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Ryukyu Islands, much of China
- Aletris stenoloba <small>Franch.</small> - Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan
- Aletris ÃÂ tottenii <small>E.T.Browne</small> - Georgia (hybrid, A. lutea ÃÂ A. obovata)
- Aletris yaanica <small>G.H.Yang</small> - Sichuan
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