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Actaea

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EntityQ158086· pop 39· linked from 45 articles

genus of plants

Species

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Genus

  1. PhylumArthropoda
  2. ClassMalacostraca
  3. OrderDecapoda
  4. FamilyXanthidae
Habitatmarine
Native toAfghanistan, Alabama, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Altay, Amur, Arizona, Arkansas, Assam, Austria, Baltic States
Observations40,104

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
1,253
With media
406
Family
Ranunculaceae
Collections
MSC, USNM, CMN, CAS, RSA, BAYLU
Recorded in
United States, Philippines, Mexico, Palau, Canada, Australia

Research

221 papers

via PubMed

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Encyclopedic overview

Actaea, commonly called baneberry, bugbane and cohosh, is a genus of flowering plants of the family Ranunculaceae, native to subtropical, temperate and subarctic regions of Europe, Asia and North America.

Taxonomy

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Actaea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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