snakeroot


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Synonyms for snakeroot

a plant of the genus Sanicula having palmately compound leaves and unisexual flowers in panicled umbels followed by bristly fruit

any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads

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The main reason cited by the poor reputation of the narration and acting weak companion's snakeroot is not proof of how fame we can other proof of a weak version of the (Georgian, 1366, 64).
The early successional forest was composed primarily of black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.), Canada goldenrod (Solidago canadensis L.), garlic mustard [Allaria petiolata (Bieb.) Cavara and Grande], white avens (Geum canadense Jacq.) and white snakeroot [Ageratina altissima (L.) King & H.
They're also eliminating pink lady's slipper, wintergreen and even endangered plant species, like lion's foot and snakeroot.
With funding provided by the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP), a team of ecologists from the Department of Natural Resources at Cornell University is working to disentangle the effects of various threats, or stressors, that contribute to the rarity of four state-listed or vulnerable plant species in New York--beaked agrimony (Agrimonia rostellata), Virginia snakeroot (Aristolochia serpentaria), reflexed sedge (Carex retroflexa) and red trillium (Trillium erectum).
The edges of our eastern woodlands are laced in September with the white flowers of white snakeroot, judged by many to be the culprit in the death of Abraham Lincoln's mother who died from milk sickness.
Species associated with woodlands, including Ageratina altissima (white snakeroot) and the woody vine Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy) were dominant.
White snakeroot (Ageratina altissima, formerly Eupatorium rugosum) killed Abraham Lincoln's mother, but not directly.
Milk sickness is a well-documented historic illness associated with consumption of milk from cows that consumed white snakeroot, a perennial plant that once thrived in moist woodlands (Figure 14-9).
reserpine: Active ingredient isolated from the root of the snakeroot plant (Rauwolfia serpentina), a small evergreen climbing shrub of the Dogbane family.
The COMOC Website was recently overhauled by Tom Roberts, co-owner of Snakeroot Organic Farm, who met Jim Cook through their participation in Maine Feeds Maine.
Members of Mosakahiken Cree Nation in Manitoba harvest senega snakeroot, which they sell to local buyers who in turn sell the root to pharmaceutical companies in the United States.
Sanicula odorata (Raf.) Pryer & Phillippe, black snakeroot, 1861.
Just now I was smelling snakeroot. Maybe you don't know what snakeroot is, you have lived always in cities.