white snakeroot
white snakeroot
| Noun | 1. |  white snakeroot - American herb having flat-topped clusters of small white flower heads; reputedly a cause of trembles and milk sickness; sometimes placed in genus Eupatorium |
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| 释义 | white snakerootwhite snakeroot
white snakerootwhite snakeroot,North American woods perennial (Eupatorium urticifolium) of the family Asteraceae (asteraster[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 bonesetboneset 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 weedjoe-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 MagnoliophytaMagnoliophyta , 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. white snakerootwhite snakerootwhite snakeroot
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