MBG Rare Books: Additional Plant Information

Medical botany : containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates, of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh : accompanied with a circumstantial detail of their medicinal effects, and of the diseases in which they have been most successfully employed / by William Woodville ... . Volume 2 of 4

Click for Enlargement Name as Printed: Rhamnus catharticus

Current Name: Rhamnus cathartica L.

Family: Rhamnaceae

Common Name: Common buckthorn, carolina buckthorn, European buckthorn, European waythorn, Hart's thorn, nerprun cathartique

Further Information:

Detailed botanical data (including distribution maps and other images) available from Tropicos.org, our nomenclatural database.
USDA Plant Profile