black snakeroot

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Related to black snakeroot: black cohosh, white snakeroot, Foam Flower

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Noun	1.	black snakeroot - deciduous low-growing perennial of Canada and eastern and central United States Asarum canadense, Canada ginger wild ginger - low-growing perennial herb with pungent gingery leaves and rhizomes
	2.	black snakeroot - North American bugbane found from Maine and Ontario to Wisconsin and south to Georgia black cohosh, Cimicifuga racemosa, rattle-top bugbane - a plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects

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Thimble-plant Season, Wood Mint Season, Lopseed Season and Leafcup Season replace Black Snakeroot Season in the shade.

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canadensis; Canada Black Snakeroot, Canada Sanicle: C = 2; BSUH 16527.

The vascular flora in three prairie cemeteries in Henry County, Indiana

Spires of sweet-scented Black Snakeroot (Actea or Cimicifuga) pair well with chartreuse foliage of the biennial Feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium), and Anise Hyssop (Agastache foeniculm) is a magnet for Monarch butterflies.