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barrenworts
Epimedium
Epimedium, also known as barrenwort, bishop's hat, fairy wings, horny goat weed, or yin yang huo (Chinese: 淫羊藿; pinyin: Yínyánghùo; Wade–Giles: Yin²-yang²-huo⁴), is a genus of flowering plants in the family Berberidaceae. The majority of the species are endemic to China, with smaller numbers elsewhere in Asia and a few in the Mediterranean region.
Epimedium species are deciduous or evergreen hardy perennials. The majority have four-parted "spider-like" flowers in spring.
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.170
Famine Relief Herbal
Zhu Su · 1406 · p.111
Stirpium adversaria nova
Matthias de Lobel · 1571 · p.160
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.610
Plant Touchstone (Phytobasanos)
Fabio Colonna · 1592 · p.101
Bencao Gangmu, Volume Upper-Middle
李時珍 · 1596 · p.25
Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica (Vol. 8)
吳其濬 · 1848 · p.6
Complete Treatise on Agricultural Administration
Xu Guangqi · 1909 · p.668
Sancai Tuhui (Vol. 96)
王圻, 王思義 · 1607 · p.60
Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.315
In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 127940.