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snakeroot
(redirected from Virginian snakeroot)

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snakeroot, name for several plants, among them black snakeroot (see bugbane bugbane, any plant of the genus Cimicifuga, tall north-temperate perennials of the family Ranunculaceae ( buttercup family). The white spirelike bloom has a rank odor that attracts flies, which pollinate the plant.
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), button snakeroot or blazing star blazing star or button snakeroot, any plant of the genus Liatris, showy North American perennials of the family Asteraceae ( aster family). The blossoms, rosy purple or white, are in somewhat feathery heads along a usually wandlike stalk.
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, senega snakeroot (see milkwort milkwort, common name for the Polygalaceae, a family including herbs, shrubs, and trees found in all parts of the world except New Zealand and the polar regions.
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), and white snakeroot white snakeroot, North American woods perennial (Eupatorium urticifolium) of the family Asteraceae ( aster family), having a flat-topped cluster of small white flowers. It is of the same genus as the boneset and joe-pye weed .
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