See text Paris is a genus of flowering plants described by Linnaeus in 1753.

[1][4][5][6] It consists of less than two dozen herbaceous plants: the best known species is Paris quadrifolia.

Some Paris species are used in traditional Chinese medicine for their analgesic and anticoagulant properties, most notably as an ingredient of Yunnan Baiyao.

[7] These plants are closely related to Trillium, with the distinction traditionally being that Trillium contains species which have trimerous (three-petaled) flowers, and Paris contains species which have 4- to 11-merous flowers.

[8] A recent analysis places the genera Daiswa and Kinugasa in Paris, though the actual circumscription of the genus is debated.