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Spigelia anthelmia
About
Spigelia anthelmia, the West Indian pinkroot, wormbush, or wormgrass, is a species of flowering plant in the family Loganiaceae. It is native to Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, Florida, and northern South America through to Bolivia and Brazil, and it has been widely introduced to other tropical locales, including western and west-central Africa, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Hainan, and the Bismarck Archipelago. Highly poisonous, it is used as a vermifuge against intestinal worms.
- Family
- Loganiaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Spigelia anthelmia
- Slug
- spigelia-anthelmia
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Loganiaceae
- Genus
- Spigelia
- Species
- anthelmia
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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