Thaspium is a genus of flowering plants in the Apiaceae (parsley or carrot family). A common name for the various Thaspium species is meadowparsnip or meadow-parsip. Its native range is eastern North America, from eastern Texas in the southwest to Maine in the northeast.
Species There are four accepted Thaspium species and one accepted variety: Thaspium barbinode (Michx.) Nutt. – hairyjoint meadowparsnipThaspium barbinode USDA Plants Database 21 Nov. 2011 Thaspium chapmanii (J.M. Coult. & Rose) Small – hairy meadow-parsnipThaspium chapmanii Robert W. Freckmann Herbarium 21 Nov. 2011 Thaspium pinnatifidum (Buckley) A. Gray – cutleaf meadowparsnipThaspium pinnatifidum USDA Plants Database 21 Nov. 2011 Thaspium trifoliatum (L.) A. Gray – purple meadowparsnipThaspium trifoliatum USDA Plants Database 21 Nov. 2011 T. trifoliatum var. aureum (Nutt.) Britton
References
External links "The Unk Weed Remedy," 1872 patent medicine advertisement for extract of Thaspium cordatum originis.