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Indian poke
Veratrum viride
Deadly poisonous — never eat any part of it.
If someone has eaten it, call emergency services or your poison control centre.
About
Veratrum viride, known as Indian poke, corn-lily, Indian hellebore, false hellebore, green false hellebore, or giant false-helleborine, is a species of Veratrum native to eastern and western North America. It is extremely toxic, and is considered a pest plant by farmers with livestock. The species has acquired a large number of other common names within its native range, including American false hellebore, American white hellebore, bear corn, big hellebore, corn lily, devil's bite, duck retten, itchweed, poor Annie, blue hellebore and tickleweed.
- Family
- Melanthiaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Veratrum viride
- Slug
- veratrum-viride
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Melanthiaceae
- Genus
- Veratrum
- Species
- viride
- Wikidata QID
- Q2707753
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 5
- Data completeness
- 43
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