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Ageratina altissima, also known as white snakeroot, [3] richweed, [3] or white sanicle, [4] is a poisonous perennial herb in the family Asteraceae, native to eastern and central North America. An older binomial name for this species is Eupatorium rugosum , but the genus Eupatorium has undergone taxonomic revision by botanists , and some species ...
Ageratina aromatica, also known as lesser snakeroot and small-leaved white snakeroot, is a North American species of plants in the family Asteraceae. It is widespread and common across much of the eastern and southern United States from Louisiana to Massachusetts , as far inland as Kentucky and Ohio .
White snakeroot is a common name for several flowering plants in the aster family, Asteraceae, and may refer to: Ageratina altissima, native to eastern North America (older name: Eupatorium rugosum) Ayapana triplinervis, native to the tropical Americas
Ageratina luciae-brauniae is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names Lucy Braun's snakeroot and rockhouse white snakeroot. It is native to the eastern United States, where it is limited to the Cumberland Plateau of Kentucky and Tennessee. [1] [4] It may also occur in South Carolina but these reports are ...
Ageratina, commonly known as snakeroot, is a genus of over 300 species [1] [2] [3] [4] of perennials and rounded shrubs in the family Asteraceae.. These plants grow ...
Ageratina havanensis, the Havana snakeroot [3] or white mistflower, [4] is a species of flowering shrub in the family Asteraceae, native to the south-western United States (), Cuba, and north-eastern and east-central Mexico (Veracruz, Tamaulipas, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Hidalgo, San Luis Potosí, Puebla, Guanajuato, Querétaro). [5]
Ageratina shastensis is a woody perennial which bears unassuming fluffy white flowers about a centimeter wide. It is an uncommon plant which grows in the cracks of limestone cliffs of the Mount Shasta, part of the Cascade Range. [6]
Bixby discovered that white snakeroot (Ageratina altissima) was the cause of milk sickness from grazing cows eating the wild plant which fatally poisoned the milk consumed by frontier settlers Anna Pierce Hobbs Bixby , sometimes spelled Bigsby , born Anna Pierce ( c. 1810 – c. 1870), was a midwife , frontier doctor , dentist , herbologist ...