Accession Data

Anemopsis californica

Common Name: Yerba Mansa

Family: Saururaceae

Country of Origin: W. & C. U.S.A. to Mexico

Uses: The active compound in Yerba mansa is methyleugenol, an antispasmodic, similar in chemical structure to compounds found in nutmeg which is used to treat irritable stomach (Fleming, 1998)

Accession Data

USDA Zone: 5a-9b

Accession #: 200100051

Accession Date: 2001-04-04 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 2316

Quantity: 2

Source: Rob Nicholson - Smith College

Provenance: wild collected Kern County, California
Lake Isabella, just sw of intersection with Rt 155. Moist Meadow.
Smith College # 194-93/94 -177

Culture: propagate by stolons

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Subclass: magnoliids

Order: Piperales

Family: Saururaceae

Flowering Data:

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References

  1. Fleming, Thomas ed. PDR for Herbal Medicines 1st ed. Medical Economics Company, Montvale, NJ, 1998.
  2. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Friday, September 08, 2017.
  3. WCSP (2016). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Friday, September 08, 2017.

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Anemopsis californica