892 Chelidonium majus L.

This species is indigenous in large parts of Eurasia. The species s. str. (subsp. majus) has been widely spread, formerly as a medicinal herb, for instance to Scandinavia. Later it was introduced into N. America, New Zealand and other places where it sometimes occurs occasionally. Subsp. asiaticum Hara in E. Asia is mapped separately. Cf. also Meusel et al. 1965, map p. 171.