''Spigelia anthelmia'', the West Indian pinkroot, wormbush, or wormgrass, is a species of flowering plant in the family

Loganiaceae The Loganiaceae are a family of flowering plants classified in order Gentianales. The family includes up to 13 genera, distributed around the world's tropics. There are not any great morphological characteristics to distinguish these taxa from ot ...

. It is native to Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, Florida, and northern South America through to Bolivia and Brazil, and it has been widely introduced to other tropical locales, including western and west-central Africa, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Hainan, and the Bismarck Archipelago. Highly poisonous, it is used as a

vermifuge Anthelmintics or antihelminthics are a group of antiparasitic drugs that expel parasitic worms (helminths) and other internal parasites from the body by either stunning or killing them without causing significant damage to the host. They may also ...

against intestinal worms.

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Loganiaceae Flora of Mexico Flora of Central America Flora of the Caribbean Flora of western South America Flora of northern South America Flora of Brazil Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus Flora without expected TNC conservation status {{Gentianales-stub