View source for Chelidonium majus

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|accepted_name=Chelidonium majus
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 505. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W
|label=Weedy
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Papaveraceae;Chelidonium;Chelidonium majus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Papaveraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Chelidonium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Chelidonium majus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>to 10 dm. <b>Stems</b> branching, ribbed. <b>Leaves</b> to 35 cm; petiole 2-10 cm; blade deeply 5-9-lobed; margins irregularly dentate or crenate, rarely laciniate. <b>Inflorescences</b>: peduncle 2-10 cm. <b>Flowers</b>: pedicels 5-35 mm; sepals to 1 cm; petals bright yellow, obovate to oblong, to 2 cm wide; style ca. 1 mm. <b>Capsules</b> linear to narrowly oblong, 2-5 cm, glabrous. <b>Seeds</b> black, reticulate-pitted.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Moist to dry woods, thickets, fields, hedgerows and fences, roadsides, railroads, and waste ground
|elevation=0-1000 m
|distribution=B.C.;N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Conn.;Del.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;Mont.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;Utah;Vt.;Va.;Wash.;W.Va.;Wis.;Eurasia.
|discussion=<p>The irritating sap of <i>Chelidonium</i> has been used to treat warts. In the vegetative state, this weedy introduction from Eurasia is difficult to distinguish from the native <i>Stylophorum diphyllum</i>.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Chelidonium majus
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Papaveraceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Moist to dry woods, thickets, fields, hedgerows and fences, roadsides, railroads, and waste ground
|elevation=0-1000 m
|distribution=B.C.;N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Conn.;Del.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;Mont.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;Utah;Vt.;Va.;Wash.;W.Va.;Wis.;Eurasia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=Illustrated;Weedy;Introduced
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|genus=Chelidonium
|species=Chelidonium majus
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