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Snakeroot

noun

A plant of the genus Sanicula having palmately compound leaves and unisexual flowers in panicled umbels followed by bristly fruit; reputed to have healing powers. Synonym: sanicle.

Any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads. Synonyms: blazing star, button snakeroot, gay-feather, gayfeather.

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... Colonies were widely employed in medicine of the period, and certain ones such as snakeroot (seneka), which was widely found growing in Virginia, would have been very scarce had not an adequate supply been immediately at hand. However, attempts to substitute other indigenous plants for scarce drugs like Peruvian bark were largely unsuccessful. There ...

— Drug Supplies in the American Revolution • George B. Griffenhagen

... herbs found in Loudoun are the rattlesnake root, Seneca snakeroot (also called Virginia snakeroot), many varieties of mint, liverwort, red-root, May apple, butterfly-weed, milk weed, thorough-stem, trumpet-weed, Indian-physic, lobelia inflata, and lobelia cardinalis, golden-rod, ...

— History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia • James W. Head

Words linked to "Snakeroot" : Sanicula Europaea, dense blazing star, wildflower, genus Liatris, herb, Sanicula, purple sanicle, Sanicula arctopoides, dotted gayfeather, genus Sanicula, Liatris punctata, footsteps-of-spring, Liatris, wild flower, Liatris pycnostachya, Sanicula bipinnatifida, herbaceous plant, European sanicle