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Arctium minus, commonly known as lesser burdock, [2] little burdock, louse-bur, common burdock, [3] button-bur, cuckoo-button, [3] or wild rhubarb, [4] is a biennial plant. This plant is native to Europe , [ 5 ] but has become introduced elsewhere such as Australia , North and South America , and other places.
Thalictrum flavum, known by the common names common meadow-rue, [2] [3] poor man's rhubarb, [4] and yellow meadow-rue, [5] is a flowering plant species in the family Ranunculaceae. It is a native to Caucasus and Russia ( Siberia ).
Gunnera tinctoria, known as giant rhubarb, [2] Chilean rhubarb, or nalca, is a flowering plant species native to southern Chile and neighboring zones in Argentina. It is unrelated to rhubarb , as the two plants belong to different orders , but looks similar from a distance and has similar culinary uses.
Rheum nobile, the Sikkim rhubarb [1] or noble rhubarb (पदमचाल), is a giant herbaceous plant native to the Himalaya, from northeastern Afghanistan, east through northern Pakistan and India (in Sikkim), Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet to Myanmar, occurring in the alpine zone at 4000–4800 m altitude.
Rhubarb is the fleshy, edible stalks of species and hybrids (culinary rhubarb) of Rheum in the family Polygonaceae, which are cooked and used for food. [2] The plant is a herbaceous perennial that grows from short, thick rhizomes .
Gunnera manicata is a large, clump-forming herbaceous perennial growing to 2.5 m (8 ft) tall by 4 m (13 ft) or more. The leaves of G. manicata grow to an impressive size. . Leaves with diameters well in excess of 120 cm (4 ft) are commonplace, with a spread of 3 m × 3 m (10 ft × 10 ft) on a mature plant.The largest on record had leaves up to eleven feet (3.3 meters) in width.
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Wild rhubarb may refer to several different plants: Arctium minus, native to Europe, in family Asteraceae; Ipomoea pandurata, herbaceous perennial vine named to North America, in family Convolvulaceae; Heracleum mantegazzianum, a toxic plant native to central Asia, in family Apiaceae; Rumex hymenosepalus, native to North America, in family ...