EPPO Global Database

Actaea racemosa(AATRA)

Overview
Code created in: 2014-05-01

Basic information
  • EPPO Code: AATRA
  • Preferred name: Actaea racemosa
  • Authority: Linnaeus

Notes

Eastern North America. Cultivated as an ornamental and medicinal plant


Other scientific names
Name Authority
Actaea cimicifuga var. racemosa (Regel) Compton
Cimicifuga racemosa (Linnaeus) Nuttall

Common names
Name Language
black bugbane English
black cohosh English
black snakeroot English
cohosh bugbane English
fairy candle English
Traubensilberkerze German
traubige Silberkerze German
actée à grappe French
cimicaire à grappes French
cimicífuga Spanish
cohosh negro Spanish
hierba de la chinche Spanish
raíz de culebra negra Spanish
cimicifuga Italian
zilverkaars Dutch
erva-de-são-cristóvão Portuguese
Amerikanskt silverax Swedish
клопогон ветвистый Russian
клопогон кистевой Russian
цимицифуга Russian
чёрный змеиный корень Russian
sort sølvlys Danish
pluskwica groniasta Polish
pluskwica sercolistna Polish
świecznica groniasta Polish