Swallowwort

Swallowwort or Swallow-wort is a term used for several plants and plant families. While the term "Swallowwort" may be derived from description of poisonous effects; there were, in the past plants used medicinally for tonsillitis and referred to as "swallowwort".

The following plants are referred to as "Swallowwort":

• Vincetoxicum hirundinaria
• Any of several vines of the genus Cynanchum, especially black swallowwort (Cynanchum nigrum) or white swallowwort (Cynanchum vincetoxicum). Cynanchum is from Greek words meaning "to choke a dog."
• Greater Celandine (Chelidonium majus).
• Greater Celandine and Swallowwort were each often categorized with Tetterworts because they were used to treat Tetter. This led to nomenclature confusion among these worts.
• many plants of the genus Asclepias
• Euphorbia maculata
• Seutera angustifolia, a plant of the genus Seutera