250201 Veratrum album L.
- L., Sp. Pl.: 1044 (1753). Lectotype (LINN): central Europe, leg. Gerber. Herb. Linn. 1210.1 (Mathew in Jarvis et al. 1993: 98).
- Veratrum lobelianum Bernh. ex Schrad., Neues J. Bot. 2, 2-3: 356 (1808). Described from central Europe.
2n=
32 (4x). - Europe, Caucasus, Siberia (N, S), Far East (N). - Numerous reports.
Geography: European - Asian.
Notes: Linnaeus' concept of Veratrum album (Linnaeus 1753) included both plants with greenish yellow and with white flowers. A majority of European authors (e.g., Heywood 1980; Mossberg and Stenberg 2003; Elven et al. 2005) have been reluctant to accept the plants with greenish yellow flowers as specifically distinct from those with white flowers. Both names available for the possible taxon with greenish yellow flowers - 'lobelianum' and 'virescens' - are based on central European plants. At present, only a pragmatic solution seems possible. We have chosen to regard the northern boreal and arctic plants with greenish yellow flowers as a race: subsp. misae. The main morphological division may run between the southern and central European mountain plants and the northern Eurasian ones.
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'''''Veratrum album''''' Dachstein ~2000m, Upper Austria, Austria
Source: Tigerente at Wikispecies
