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Actaea racemosa, the black cohosh, black bugbane, black snakeroot, rattle-top, or fairy candle (syn. Cimicifuga racemosa), is a species of flowering plant of the family Ranunculaceae. It is native to eastern North America from the extreme south of Ontario to central Georgia, and west to Missouri and Arkansas.
Black snakeroot may refer to: Actaea racemosa / Cimicifuga racemosa , more commonly called black cohosh, an herbaceous perennial plant species native to eastern North America, with medicinal uses Certain species in the plant genus Sanicula
The Cimicifugeae are a tribe of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae, based on the now obsolete genus Cimicifuga (sometimes called "bugbane" or "cohosh"). [2] The name Cimicifuga means "bed bug repeller". In pharmacology, Cimicifugae rhizoma is a herbal medicine (Cimicifuga/Actea root), translated as Sheng ma, a Chinese root ...
The genus was redefined to include Cimicifuga and Souliea in the 1990s [2] (Compton et al. 1998, Compton & Culham 2002, Gao et al. 2006, RHS Plant Finder, 2007) based on combined evidence from DNA sequence data, similarity in biochemical constituents and on morphology returning it to the original Linnean concept of the genus. [3]
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Cohosh is a common name in the English language for several loosely related woodland herbs. The name may derive from Algonquian (Eastern Abenaki / Penobscot) '*kkwὰhas', meaning 'rough', possibly describing leaves or compound flowers. It may refer to: Black cohosh, Actaea racemosa (Ranunculaceae) Blue cohosh, Caulophyllum thalictroides ...