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baneberry

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baneberry, any plant of the small genus Actaea, north temperate perennials of the family Ranunculaceae (buttercup buttercup or crowfoot, common name for the Ranunculaceae, a family of chiefly annual or perennial herbs of cool regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
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 family) sometimes cultivated for the handsome (though poisonous) berrylike fruits. Native species, formerly used medicinally by both Native Americans and whites and also called cohosh, are the red baneberry (with a stalk of red berries) and the white baneberry (with a stalk of white berries). The plant is also one of several plants called herb Christopher, particularly the dark-fruited European species. The baneberry is similar to the related bugbane, one species of which is also called cohosh. Baneberry is classified in the division Magnoliophyta Magnoliophyta , division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem).
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, class Magnoliopsida, order Ranunculales, family Ranunculaceae.


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Morristown-Newport Cocke and Hamblen Counties; the towns of Baneberry, Jefferson City, Jefferson Estates, Leadvale, Talbot, and White Pine in Jefferson County; and Grainger County, excluding the towns of Blaine, Buffalo Springs, Joppa, Lea Springs, and Powder Springs.
Field trip focuses on berries The Willamette National Forest is offering a field trip that provides an overview of the various types of berries found in the Cascade Mountains, from several varieties of edible huckleberries to the poisonous baneberry.
Black cohosh, also known as baneberry, black snakeroot, bugbane, rattleweed and rattleroot, grows in eastern North America, from southern Maine to Georgia (Ramsey, 1997).
 
 
 
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