Veratrum californicum

Veratrum californicum

Taxobox
color = lightgreen
name = "Veratrum californicum"


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regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Liliopsida
ordo = Liliales
familia = Melanthiaceae
genus = "Veratrum"
species = "V. californicum"
binomial = "Veratrum californicum"
binomial_authority = Durand

"Veratrum californicum" ( [California] corn lily, white or California false hellebore) is a poisonous plant native to mountain meadows in southwestern North America and the Rocky Mountains. It grows 1 to 2 meters tall, with a stem resembling a cornstalk. [cite book | author=Theodore F. Niehaus, Charles L. Ripper, and Virginia Savage | title=A Field Guide to Southwestern and Texas Wildflowers | publisher=Houghton Mifflin Company | year=1984 | pages = 10–11 | id=ISBN 0-395-36640-2]

It is a source of jervine and cyclopamine, teratogens which can cause birth defects such as holoprosencephaly and cyclopia in animals that graze upon it. These substances inhibit the hedgehog signaling pathway.Fact|date=July 2008

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