The genus is best known for liquorice (British English; licorice in American English), which is the product of G. glabra, a species native to the Mediterranean region. Very little G. glabra is grown in North America, but American Licorice G. lepidota is a common native species there.

Russian Liquorice (G. echinata) and Chinese Liquorice (G. uralensis, Chinese: gāncǎo, 甘草; lit. "sweet grass" or "sweet herb") are also cultivated, the latter being important in traditional Chinese medicine.

Species include:

• Glycyrrhiza acanthocarpa
• Glycyrrhiza aspera
• Glycyrrhiza astragalina
• Glycyrrhiza bucharica
• Glycyrrhiza echinata - Russian liquorice
• Glycyrrhiza eglandulosa
• Glycyrrhiza foetida
• Glycyrrhiza foetidissima
• Glycyrrhiza glabra - liquorice, licorice
• Glycyrrhiza gontscharovii
• Glycyrrhiza iconica
• Glycyrrhiza korshinskyi
• Glycyrrhiza lepidota - American licorice
• Glycyrrhiza pallidiflora
• Glycyrrhiza squamulosa
• Glycyrrhiza triphylla
• Glycyrrhiza uralensis - Chinese liquorice
• Glycyrrhiza yunnanensis

External links

• Jepson Manual Treatment
• USDA Plants Profile: North American Species

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