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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
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 family), having a flat-topped cluster of small white flowers. It is of the same genus as the boneset boneset (bōn`sĕt) or thoroughwort
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 and joe-pye weed joe-pye weed (jō-pī`), name for a tall North American plant (Eupatorium purpureum
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. The herbage contains tremetol, a toxic principle causing "milk sickness," or milk fever. White snakeroot is classified in the division Magnoliophyta Magnoliophyta (măg'nōlēŏf`ətə)
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, class Magnoliopsida, order Asterales, family Asteraceae.

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