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white snakeroot

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white snakeroot, North American woods perennial (Eupatorium urticifolium) of the family Asteraceae (aster aster [Gr.,=star], common name for the Asteraceae (Compositae), the aster family, in North America, name for plants of the genus Aster, sometimes called wild asters, and for a related plant more correctly called China aster (Callistephus chinensis
..... Click the link for more information.  family), having a flat-topped cluster of small white flowers. It is of the same genus as the boneset boneset or thoroughwort , perennial North American herb (Eupatorium perfoliatum) of the family Asteraceae (aster family), having terminal clusters of small, chiefly white blossoms.
..... Click the link for more information.  and joe-pye weed joe-pye weed , name for a tall North American plant (Eupatorium purpureum) of the family Asteraceae (aster family), having small, usually pinkish-purple blossoms in large terminal clusters.
..... Click the link for more information. . The herbage contains tremetol, a toxic principle causing "milk sickness," or milk fever. White snakeroot 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).
..... Click the link for more information. , class Magnoliopsida, order Asterales, family Asteraceae.
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Even as white snakeroot flowers in the woods and Joe Pye Weed becomes gray with age, the Summer Triangle overhead is reminiscent of Mothers' Day dawn.
Poor Will's Countryside Almanack for Middle & Late Summer 2009 by Felker, W.L. / Countryside & Small Stock Journal
Midwestern peaches are coming in to the markets as late summer's white snakeroot is budding in the woods, and Joe Pye weed heads up in the wetlands.
Poor Will's Countryside Almanack for middle & late summer 2008 by Felker, W.L. / Countryside & Small Stock Journal
The blossoms could belong to poisonous white snakeroot.
Poor Will's Countryside almanack for middle & late summer 2007 by Countryside & Small Stock Journal
 
 
 
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