Plant Details

Accepted name:: Lycopus americanus Muhl. ex W.P.C.Barton [Lamiaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies:: 2

Lycopus americanus subsp. americanus

Lycopus americanus subsp. laurentianus (Roll.-Germ.) Coursol & Bailleul

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
american bugleweed	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
american water hore-hound	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
american waterhorehound	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
european bugleweed	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
water horehound	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 3 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Lycopus lucidus var. americanus (Muhl. ex W.P.C.Barton) A.Gray Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 8: 286 (1870).
Lycopus lucidus subsp. americanus (Muhl. ex W.P.C.Barton) Hultén Ark. Bot., a.s., 7(1): 117 (1967 publ. 1968).
Phytosalpinx americana (Muhl. ex W.P.C.Barton) Lunell Amer. Midl. Naturalist 5: 2 (1917).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Lycopus americanus Muhl. Ex W. Bart.	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Lycopus americanus Muhl. ex W. Bart.	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
Lycopus americanus Muhl. ex W. P. C. Barton	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
Lycopus americanus Muhl. ex W.P.C. Barton	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Lycopus americanus Muhl. ex W.P.C.Barton	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)

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