Aletris

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title: "Aletris" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["nartheciaceae", "dioscoreales-genera"] description: "Genus of flowering plants" topic_path: "general/nartheciaceae" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aletris" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of flowering plants ::

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• Stachyopogon Klotzsch
• Meta-aletris Masam.

Aletris, the colicroot, colicweed, crow corn, or unicorn root, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Nartheciaceae, native to North America and to eastern and southeastern Asia, especially China. It was used as a component in Lydia Pinkham's original Vegetable Compound.

Species

Aletris species include:

• Aletris alpestris Diels. - Guizhou, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan
• Aletris aurea Walter - from Texas and Oklahoma to Maryland
• Aletris bracteata Northr. - Florida, Bahamas
• Aletris capitata F.T.Wang & Tang - Sichuan
• Aletris cinerascens F.T.Wang & Tang - Yunnan, Guangxi
• Aletris farinosa L. - Ontario and much of eastern United States
• Aletris foliata (Maxim.) Makino & Nemoto - Korea, Japan
• Aletris foliolosa Stapf - Sumatra, Sabah, Mindoro
• Aletris foliosa (Maxim.) Bureau & Franch. - Japan
• Aletris glabra Bureau & Franch. - Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Tibet, Fujian, Gansu, Guizhou, Hubei, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan
• Aletris glandulifera Bureau & Franch. - Gansu, Shaanxi, Sichuan
• Aletris gracilis Rendle - Nepal, Bhutan, Arunachal Pradesh, Myanmar, Tibet, Yunnan
• Aletris laxiflora Bureau & Franch. - Tibet, Sichuan, Guizhou
• Aletris lutea Small - Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana
• Aletris megalantha F.T.Wang & Tang - Yunnan
• Aletris nana S.C.Chen - Tibet, Yunnan, Nepal
• Aletris obovata Nash - - Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina
• Aletris pauciflora (Klotzsch) Hand.-Mazz - Tibet, Yunnan, Nepal, Bhutan, Assam, Myanmar, northern India
• Aletris pedicellata F.T.Wang & Tang - Sichuan
• Aletris scopulorum Dunn - Shikoku, Fujian, Guangdong, Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang
• Aletris simpliciflora R.Li & Shu D.Zhang - Tibet
• Aletris spicata (Thunb.) Franch. - Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Ryukyu Islands, much of China
• Aletris stenoloba Franch. - Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan
• Aletris × tottenii E.T.Browne - Georgia (hybrid, A. lutea × A. obovata)
• Aletris yaanica G.H.Yang - Sichuan

References

References

1. Curtis's Botanical Magazine v. 34 (1811)
2. "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew".
3. "Aletris in Flora of China @ efloras.org".
4. "Aletris in Flora of North America @ efloras.org".
5. [http://bonap.net/NAPA/TaxonMaps/Genus/County/Aletris Biota of North America Program, 2013 county distribution maps]

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