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Tanacetum parthenium

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Tanacetum parthenium

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Also known as feverfew, featherfew

species of plant

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Tanacetum parthenium is a species within the family Asteraceae, also classified under Compositae. It belongs to the genus Tanacetum and is part of the order Asterales, class Magnoliopsida, and phylum Tracheophyta in the kingdom Plantae. The taxon is accepted under the authority (L.) Sch.Bip. Common names for this plant include feverfew, Mutterkraut, Moederkruid, moederkruid, Manzanilla, manzanilla criolla, and altamiza.

Records of Tanacetum parthenium are documented in Canada and Mexico. Institutional collections holding records include the University of Alberta Museums, TEX, INECOL, SEMAHN, and UNICACH. The species has an occurrence count of 142,738 and a record count of 2,512, with 1,607 media items associated with these records.

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Vinony's link graph records 141 inbound references to Tanacetum parthenium, and connects out to Asteraceae, United States Department of Agriculture and plant.

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Species

Feverfew

SPECIES

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderAsterales
  5. FamilyAsteraceae
Native toAfghanistan, Albania, Bulgaria, East Aegean Is., Greece, Iran, Iraq, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Pakistan, Transcaucasus, Türkiye
Observations recorded142,738

IV, V, RM, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
2,512
With media
1,607
Family
Asteraceae
Collections
UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS, TEX, INECOL, SEMAHN, UNICACH, FCAGRI-UAEM
Recorded in
Canada, Mexico

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Tanacetum
Image
Feverfew.jpg
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taxon rank
species
taxon name
Tanacetum parthenium
Commons category
Tanacetum parthenium
taxon common name
materine drobtinice
Commons gallery
Tanacetum parthenium
short name
T. parthenium
taxon author citation
L. Sch. Bip.
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Encyclopedic overview

Tanacetum parthenium, known as feverfew, is a flowering plant in the daisy family, Asteraceae. It may be grown as an ornament, and may be identified by its synonyms, Chrysanthemum parthenium and Pyrethrum parthenium. Having its origin in the Balkans region, it is now distributed worldwide.

Although long used in traditional medicine, there is no clinical evidence that it has any therapeutic effects.

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

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