rattlesnake master

Related to rattlesnake master: prairie dock, wild quinine, Prairie blazing star

rattlesnake master

Any of several plants of the genus Eryngium of the parsley family, especially E. yuccifolium of central and eastern North America, once thought effective against rattlesnake venom and having narrow spiny leaves and clusters of small whitish flowers.

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rattlesnake master - coarse prickly perennial eryngo of United States thought to cure rattlesnake bite

button snakeroot, Eryngium yuccifolium, rattlesnake's master

perennial - (botany) a plant lasting for three seasons or more

Eryngium, genus Eryngium - large genus of decorative plants with thistlelike flower heads; cosmopolitan in distribution

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