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photo credits:
Close-up of flower: Roger Chalkley, University
of Cincinnati, McMicken College of Arts and Sciences, Department of
Mathematical Sciences, Wild
Flowers and Their Associates;
Close-up of berries: Kier Morse, Kier's Botanical Photo Archive;
Plant: Paul T.
Arnold, Young Harris
College Plant Image Database
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I. Caulophyllum
thalictoìdes (L.) Michx.
Blue Cohosh
Leontice
thalictroides L. Sp. Pl. 312. 1753
C. thalictroides
Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. I: 205. 1753.
Glabrous,
glaucous
when young, 1°-3° high, with 2 or 3 large
sheathing bracts
at the base, a large triornate nearly sessile
leaf
near the summit, and a generally smaller similar one near the base of
the inflorescence.
Divisions of the leaves long-petioled,
ternately
or pinnately
compound, the ultimate segments thin, 1'-3'
long, oval, oblong,
or oblate, 2'-3' long; , 3-5 lobed near the apex ;
panicle
terminal, 2'-3' long ; flowers greenish purple, 4"-6" broad ;
seeds globular, 4" in diameter, glaucous, borne on stout stalks about
3" long.
In woods, New Brunswick to South Carolina, west to
Manitoba, Tennessee, Nebraska and Missouri. Ascends to 5000 ft.
in North Carolina. April-May. Blueberry.
Blue-ginseng. Blueberry-, squay- or papoose-root.
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