Conopholis
Encyclopedia
Conopholis is a small genus of flowering plant
s in the family Orobanchaceae
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Flowering plant
The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...
s in the family Orobanchaceae
Orobanchaceae
Orobanchaceae, the broomrape family, is a family of flowering plants of the order Lamiales, with about 90 genera and more than 2000 species. Many of these genera were formerly included in the family Scrophulariaceae sensu lato...
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Species
- Conopholis alpinaConopholis alpinaConopholis alpina, or the alpine cancer-root is an achlorophyllous , root holoparasite....
, alpine cancer-root- Conopholis alpina var. mexicana, Mexican cancer-root
- Conopholis americanaConopholis americanaConopholis americana, American cancer-root or squawroot or bear corn, is a perennial, non-photosynthesizing parasitic plant, from the family Orobanchaceae and more recently from the genus Conopholis but also listed as Orobanche, native but not endemic to North America and when blooming, resembles...
, American cancer-root or Squawroot. In the American Blue Ridge Mountains, C. americana is called "bear corn" because it resembles an ear of corn. It is also called "Cancer-root" because it was reputed to have therapeutic properties upon the disease.