Circaea Linnaeus. Subfamily: Onagroideae. Tribe: Circaeeae. Enchanter's-nightshade.
A genus of 8 species (14 taxa), herbs, of temperate and boreal regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
ID notes: Sometimes confused in vegetative condition with Phryma; the leaf teeth are quite different.
Ref: Averett & Boufford (1985); Boufford (1983 [1982]); Boufford (2005); Boufford (2021b) In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2021); Munz (1965); Skvortsov (1979); Wagner, Hoch, & Raven (2007); Xie et al. (2009). Show full citations.
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