Common names:

• celandine  (Source: Dict Econ Pl) - English
• great celandine  (Source: CRC MedHerbs) - English
• greater celandine  (Source: BSBI) - English
• nipplewort  (Source: CRC MedHerbs) - English
• swallowwort  (Source: Dict Gard) - English
• Schöllkraut  (Source: pers. comm.) - German
• skelört  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish
• bai qu cai  (Source: F ChinaEng) - Transcribed Chinese
• čistotel bol'šoj  (Source: Mansf Ency) - Transliterated Russian

Economic Importance:

• Environmental: ornamental (fide Dict Gard; Zander ed13)
• Medicines: folklore (fide Ency CNatIn; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals (fide Kingsbury; Cooper & Johnson ed2; Lampe & McCann)

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• MACARONESIA: Portugal, [Madeira Islands] Spain [Canary Islands]
• NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria (n.), Morocco

Asia-Temperate

• WESTERN ASIA: Iran (n.), Turkey
• CAUCASUS: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation, [Dagestan] Russian Federation-Ciscaucasia [Ciscaucasia]
• SIBERIA: Russian Federation-Eastern Siberia, [Eastern Siberia] Russian Federation-Western Siberia [Western Siberia]
• MIDDLE ASIA: Kazakhstan (s.e.)
• MONGOLIA: Mongolia

Europe

• NORTHERN EUROPE: Denmark, Finland (s.), Ireland, Norway (s.), Sweden (s.), United Kingdom
• MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland
• EASTERN EUROPE: Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russian Federation-European part, [European part] Ukraine (incl. Krym)
• SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece (incl. Crete), Italy (incl. Sardinia, Sicily), Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovenia
• SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: France (incl. Corsica), Portugal, Spain (incl. Baleares)


Cultivated (also cult.)

Naturalized (natzd. elsewhere in temperate regions)

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Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2018. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?10169. Accessed 22 April 2018.