Aletris

Aletris, the colicroot, colicweed, crow corn, or unicorn root, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Nartheciaceae, native to North America and to eastern and southeastern Asia, especially China. It was used as a component in Lydia Pinkham's original Vegetable Compound.

Species
Aletris species include:


 * Aletris alpestris Diels. - Guizhou, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan
 * Aletris aurea Walter - from Texas and Oklahoma to Maryland
 * Aletris bracteata Northr. - Florida, Bahamas
 * Aletris capitata F.T.Wang & Tang - Sichuan
 * Aletris cinerascens F.T.Wang & Tang - Yunnan, Guangxi
 * Aletris farinosa L. - Ontario and much of eastern United States
 * Aletris foliata (Maxim.) Makino & Nemoto - Korea, Japan
 * Aletris foliolosa Stapf - Sumatra, Sabah, Mindoro
 * Aletris foliosa (Maxim.) Bureau & Franch. - Japan
 * Aletris glabra Bureau & Franch. - Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Tibet, Fujian, Gansu, Guizhou, Hubei, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan
 * Aletris glandulifera Bureau & Franch. - Gansu, Shaanxi, Sichuan
 * Aletris gracilis Rendle - Nepal, Bhutan, Arunachal Pradesh, Myanmar, Tibet, Yunnan
 * Aletris laxiflora Bureau & Franch. - Tibet, Sichuan, Guizhou
 * Aletris lutea Small - Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana
 * Aletris megalantha F.T.Wang & Tang - Yunnan
 * Aletris nana S.C.Chen - Tibet, Yunnan, Nepal
 * Aletris obovata Nash - - Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina
 * Aletris pauciflora (Klotzsch) Hand.-Mazz - Tibet, Yunnan, Nepal, Bhutan, Assam, Myanmar, northern India
 * Aletris pedicellata F.T.Wang & Tang - Sichuan
 * Aletris scopulorum Dunn - Shikoku, Fujian, Guangdong, Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang
 * Aletris simpliciflora R.Li & Shu D.Zhang - Tibet
 * Aletris spicata (Thunb.) Franch. - Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Ryukyu Islands, much of China
 * Aletris stenoloba Franch. - Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan
 * Aletris × tottenii E.T.Browne - Georgia  (hybrid, A. lutea × A. obovata)
 * Aletris yaanica G.H.Yang - Sichuan