Table 1.

Species of Ginseng belonging to the genus Panax.

Scientific name	Common name (English name)	Geographical distribution
Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer	Asian ginseng Orient Ginseng Chinese Ginseng Korean Ginseng Red Ginseng White Ginseng Tartary Ginseng Tartary Root Kirin Ginseng	Korea Japan China Russia Germany
Panax japonicus C.A. Meyer	Japanese Ginseng ChiKu	East, Middle-south, South and South Yunnan Japan
Panax bipinnatifidus Seem	Feather-leaf bamboo ginseng Feather-leaved bamboo ginseng	Hubei, China Nepal Eastern Himalayas
Panax notoginseng (Burkill) F.H. Chen	Sanchi Ginseng Tienchi Ginseng Sanchu Ginseng Notoginseng San-qi ginseng Tien-qi ginseng Yunnan ginseng	Yunnan, Guangxi Guangdong, China
Panax omeiensis J. Wen	Omei ginseng	Sichuan, China Nepal Eastern Himalayas
Panax pseudoginseng Wallich	Himalayan Ginseng	South Tibet Nepal Eastern Himalayas
Panax quinquefolius L.	American Ginseng Occidental Ginseng Canadian Ginseng	Northeast, North, East China Southern Canada America (from Maine to Minnesota, south to Florida and west to Oklahoma)
Panax stipuleanatus H.T. Tsai and K.M. Feng	Pingpien ginseng Baisanqi Tusangi Yesangi Zhujie qi	Southern Yunnan, China
Panax trifolius L.	Dwarf ginseng Groundnut	Ohio Pennsylvania Nova Scotia to Wisconsin and further south
Panax wangianus S.C. Sun	Narrow-leaved pseudoginseng	Sichuan, China
Panax vietnamensis Ha et Grushv.	Bamboo ginseng Vietnamese Ginseng
Panax zingiberensis C.Y. Wu and K.M. Feng	Ginger ginseng Ginger-like Pseudo-ginseng	Yunnan, China

[References: 5, 8, 9, MULTILINGUAL MULTISCRIPT PLANT NAME DATABASE-http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Panax.html#bipinnatifidus and Ginseng: A Concise Handbook. Edited by James A, Duke. Reference Publications, Inc. 1989. Michigan, USA]