Nabalus albus

White rattlesnake root
Nabalus albus[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Cichorieae
Genus: Nabalus
Species: N. albus
Binomial name
Nabalus albus
(L.) Hook.
White Rattlesnake Root

Nabalus albus, white rattlesnake root, is a plant in the family Asteraceae, native to Canada and the Eastern United States.[2][3][4] Details of the flower heads are needed to separate this species from others in the rattlesnake-root genus (Nabalus). The Iroquois applied a poultice of the roots of white rattlesnake root to rattlesnake bites. It lives in anthropogenic (man-made or disturbed habitats), forests, woodlands. The leaves are simple (i.e., lobed or unlobed but not separated into leaflets) and the edge of the leaf blade either has no teeth or lobes or the edge of the leaf blade has teeth depending on the species. The flower head has ray flowers only, meaning all of the individual flowers of the flower head have a strap-shaped ray, which may or may not have teeth at the very tip of the ray. The colors vary from blue to purple, pink to red, or white. The leaf blade length can be between 40 to 300 mm. while the flower head width can be 3 to 5 mm.[5]

Habitat

Map of where the plant lives

The White Rattlesnake Root prefers to live in anthropogenic (man-made or disturbed habitats), forests, woodlands and is native to Canada and the Eastern United States. It is commonly present in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. 3 vols. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Vol. 3: 335.
  2. ↑ Plants for a Future
  3. ↑ Go Botany, New England Wild Flower Society, Nabalus albus (L.) Hook. white rattlesnake-root
  4. ↑ US Department of Agriculture plants profile
  5. 1 2 "Nabalus albus (white rattlesnake-root): Go Botany". gobotany.newenglandwild.org. Retrieved 2016-02-08.

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