Taxon: Veratrum nigrum L.

Genus:

Veratrum

Section:

Fuscoveratrum

Subsection:

Asiaveratrum

Family:

Melanthiaceae

Tribe:

Melanthieae

Nomen number:

41139

Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 2:1044. 1753

Link to protologue:

Typification:

Name Verified on:

15-feb-2011 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 15-feb-2011

Species priority site is:

Ornamental Plant Germplasm Center (OPGC)

Accessions:

0 in National Plant Germplasm System

Common names:

black veratrum (Source: Zander Ency) - English
black-hellebore (Source: Harv Pap Bot) - English
vérâtre noir (Source: Zander Ency) - French
schwarzer Germer (Source: Zander Ency) - German
veratro nero (Source: F Ital) - Italian
svart nysrot (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish

Economic Importance:

Environmental: ornamental (fide Dict Gard; Harv Pap Bot 2:165. 1997)

Distributional Range:

Native

Asia-Temperate

SIBERIA: Russian Federation [Altay, Buryatia, Chita, Gorno-Altay, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Tuva]
MIDDLE ASIA: Kazakhstan
MONGOLIA: Mongolia
RUSSIAN FAR EAST: Russian Federation [Primorye]
CHINA: China [Gansu, Guizhou, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Monggol, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan]

Europe

MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Switzerland
EASTERN EUROPE: Russian Federation-European part, [European part] Ukraine
SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Bulgaria, Former Yugoslavia, Italy, Romania
SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: France

Cultivated

(also cult.)

References:

Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource on www.skud.info). 2012 (Kulturvaxtdatabas)
Chinese Academy of Sciences Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. 1959- (F China)
Erhardt, W. et al. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. 2008 (Zander Ency)
Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992 (Dict Gard)
Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. Flora SSSR. 1934-1964 (F USSR)
Krasnoborov, I. M., ed. Flora of Siberia (English translation). 2000- (F Siberia)
Pignatti, S. Flora d'Italia. (F Ital)
Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. Flora europaea. 1964-1980 (F Eur)
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- (F ChinaEng)
Zomlefer, W. B. 1997. The genera of Melanthiaceae in the southeastern United States Harvard Pap. Bot. 2:165.

Check other web resources for Veratrum nigrum L. :

Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://germoplasma.iniaf.gob.bo/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=41139. Accessed 21 diciembre 2025.