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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. It grows in a variety of woodland ...
The berries are harmless to birds, the plant's primary seed disperser. The synonym Cimicifuga, meaning 'bed bug repellent', has traditional uses: for example, in pharmacology, Cimicifugae rhizoma is a herbal medicine Sheng ma, a Chinese preparation which may be extracted from the roots of A. dahurica and A. heracleifolia.
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 ...
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
Native to Madagascar, the dragon plant is a small tree or shrub with tiny fragrant white flowers in spring and yellowish berries in the fall. It can grow outdoors in USDA Hardiness Zones 10 to 11 ...
Actaea simplex, the baneberry or bugbane, is a flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae. A clump-forming rhizomatous herbaceous perennial, its native range includes the Kamchatka, Sakhalin and Siberian regions of Russia, western China, Manchuria, Mongolia, Korea and Japan. [3] Plants may be harmful if eaten, and the sap may ...
A plant that flowers on a showy raceme may have this reflected in its scientific name, e.g. the species Actaea racemosa. A compound raceme, also called a panicle, has a branching main axis. Examples of racemes occur on mustard (genus Brassica) and radish (genus Raphanus) plants. [3]
Actaea arizonica is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family known by the common name Arizona bugbane. [2] It is endemic to Arizona in the United States, where it occurs in Coconino, Gila, and Yavapai Counties. [1] Like some other species in genus Actaea, this plant was formerly included in the genus Cimicifuga. [1] [3] [4]