. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. 2S6 \ALERIANACEAE. Vol. 5. Valeriana officinalis L. Common, Garden or Great Wild Valerian. Vandal-root. Fig. 3999. Valeriana officinalis L. Sp. PI. 31. 1753. Erect, 2°-5° high, more or less pubes-cent, especially at the nodes. Leaves allpinnately parted into 7-25 thin reticulate-veined lanceolate acute or acuminate seg-ments, sharply dentate, or those of theupper leaves
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. 2S6 \ALERIANACEAE. Vol. 5. Valeriana officinalis L. Common, Garden or Great Wild Valerian. Vandal-root. Fig. 3999. Valeriana officinalis L. Sp. PI. 31. 1753. Erect, 2°-5° high, more or less pubes-cent, especially at the nodes. Leaves allpinnately parted into 7-25 thin reticulate-veined lanceolate acute or acuminate seg-ments, sharply dentate, or those of theupper leaves entire, usually with somescattered hairs beneath; flowers pink ornearly white, about 2 long; inflorescenceof several rather compact corymbed cymes ;bracts linear-lanceolate, rather large; fruitglabrous, ovate, about I2 long. Escaped from gardens to roadsides in NewYork, Ohio and New Jersey. Native of Eu-rope and Asia. Old names, cats-valerian,^setwell, cut-heal, all-heal. Garden-, summer-or hardy-heliotrope. St. Georges-herb. June-Aug. 2. VALERIANELLA [Tourn.] Mill. Card. Diet. Abr. Ed. 4. dichotomously branched herbs, the basal leaves tufted, entire, those of the stemsessile, often dentate, the flowers in terminal, compact or c
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