Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Ranunculales > Papaveraceae > Chelidonium > Chelidonium majus

Chelidonium majus (celandine)

Synonyms:

Wikipedia Abstract

Chelidonium majus, commonly known as greater celandine or tetterwort,(although tetterwort also refers to Sanguinaria canadensis), nipplewort, or swallowwort, is a herbaceous perennial plant, the only species in the genus Chelidonium. It is native to Europe and western Asia and introduced widely in North America. While the greater celandine belongs to the poppy family, the lesser celandine belongs to the buttercup family.
View Wikipedia Record: Chelidonium majus

Infraspecies

Chelidonium majus f. multifidum
Chelidonium majus majus

Attributes

Bee Flower Color [1]  UV-Green
Flower Color [1]  Yellow
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [2]  The whole plant is poisonous; It is of very low toxicity and this is greatly reduced by drying the plant; The stem juice is highly irritating and allergenic, it may cause paralysis; Large doses cause sleepiness, skin irritation, respiratory tract irritation, violent coughing and dyspnoea; It also stains the urine bright yellow and may cause ulcers;
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Bees, Flies, Beetles, Bats
Structure [4]  Herb
Usage [2]  Plants rapidly form a ground cover, but should only be used in wild places because of their invasive nature; Seed contains 50 - 66% of a fatty oil; No more details given.
Height [2]  20 inches (0.5 m)
Width [2]  16 inches (0.4 m)
Light Preference [3]  Mixed Sun/Shade
Soil Acidity [3]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [3]  Rich
Soil Moisture [3]  Moist
View Plants For A Future Record : Chelidonium majus

Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Predators

Aleyrodes lonicerae[5]
Aleyrodes proletella (Cabbage Whitefly)[6]
Atrococcus achilleae (yarrow mealybug)[7]
Chromatomyia horticola[8]
Phenacoccus parietaricola[7]

Providers

Pollinated by 
Episyrphus balteatus (Marmelade Fly)[8]
Melanostoma scalare[8]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287.
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 5Ecology of Commanster
♦ 6Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 7Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0