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Euphrasia officinalis (eyebright)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Euphrasia rostkoviana (synonym Euphrasia officinalis), common names Eyebright, Eyewort, is a plant from the genus Euphrasia, in the family Orobanchaceae. Euphrasia rostkoviana herb has been used in the traditional Austrian medicine internally as tea, or externally as compresses, for treatment of disorders of the eyes and the gastrointestinal tract.
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Infraspecies

Euphrasia officinalis anglica
Euphrasia officinalis monticola
Euphrasia officinalis officinalis
Euphrasia officinalis pratensis
Euphrasia officinalis var. campestris
Euphrasia officinalis var. officinalis

Attributes

Bee Flower Color [1]  Blue
Flower Color [1]  Blue
Height [2]  14 inches (.35 m)
Lifespan [2]  Annual
Structure [4]  Herb
Light Preference [3]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [3]  Moderate Acid
Soil Fertility [3]  Mostly Infertile
Soil Moisture [3]  Moist

Protected Areas

Providers

Pollinated by 
Helophilus pendulus (Striped Hover Fly)[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

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♦ 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.
♦ 2PLANTATT - Attributes of British and Irish Plants: Status, Size, Life History, Geography and Habitats, M. O. Hill, C. D. Preston & D. B. Roy, Biological Records Centre, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (2004)
♦ 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
♦ 5Jorrit 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.
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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