| Spigelia | |
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| Spigelia marilandica | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Gentianales |
| Family: | Loganiaceae |
| Genus: | Spigelia L. |
| Type species | |
| Spigelia anthelmia L.
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Spigelia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Loganiaceae. It contains around 60 species, distributed over the warmer parts of the Americas, from the latitude of Buenos Aires to the Southern United States.[1] It was named after Adriaan van den Spiegel (Adrianus Spigelius) by Carl Linnaeus in his 1753 Species Plantarum; the type species is Spigelia anthelmia.[2] Pinkroot is a common name for plants in this genus.[3]
- ^ Alex V. Popovkin; Katherine G. Mathews; José Carlos Mendes Santos; M. Carmen Molina & Lena Struwe (2011). "Spigelia genuflexa (Loganiaceae), a new geocarpic species from the Atlantic forest of northeastern Bahia, Brazil". PhytoKeys (6): 47–65. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.6.1654. PMC 3261033. PMID 22287919.
- ^ Nathaniel Lord Britton & Addison Brown (1896). "2. Spigèlia L. Sp. Pl. 149. 1753". An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 2. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 730. Archived from the original on 18 September 2011.
- ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Spigelia". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 25 November 2015.