Apiaceae FAMILY

Bupleurum aureum

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Bupleurum aureum is an erect, herbaceous, perennial plant growing from thin, creeping, little-branched rhizomes. It usually produces a single, sometimes 2 - 3 little-branched stems 50 - 120cm tall[ 266 Title Flora of China Publication Author Website http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/ Publisher Missouri Botanical Garden Press; St. Louis. Year 1994 ISBN Description An excellent, comprehensive resource in 25 volumes. In addition to the botanical information the flora also gives basic information on habitat and some uses. An on-line version is also available. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine.

Habitat & Origin

Origintemperate

Native RangeAsia - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, western China, eastern and western Siberia, Mongolia

HabitatSparse coniferous, mixed and broadleaved forests, forest edges, forest meadows, ravines and banks of streams, shrubby thickets; at elevations in the mountains to subalpine, rarely alpine, meadows[ 74 Title Flora of the USSR. Publication Author Komarov. V. L. Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org Publisher Israel Program for Scientific Translation Year 1968 ISBN - Description An immense (25 or more large volumes) and not yet completed translation of the Russian flora. Full of information on plant uses and habitats but heavy going for casual readers. It can be downloaded from the Internet. ].