Vaccaria

Vaccaria
Vaccaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Core eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Caryophyllaceae
Genus: Vaccaria
Species: V. hispanica
Binomial name
Vaccaria hispanica
(Mill.) Rauschert
Synonyms

Saponaria vaccaria
Vaccaria pyramidata
Vaccaria segetalis
Vaccaria vaccaria
Vaccaria vulgaris

Vaccaria is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the pink family containing the single species Vaccaria hispanica. It is known by several common names including cowherb, cowcockle, and cow soapwort. Its subspecies were previously treated as separate species.[1] It is used medicinally in Chinese medicine and acupuncture. It is native to Eurasia but can be found in many other regions as an introduced species and a common weed.

It is an annual herb with blue-gray, waxy herbage and pale pink flowers.

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