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 Blue Cohosh
Caulophyllum thalictroides
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---Synonyms---Pappoose Root. Squawroot. Blueberry Root.
---Part Used---Root.
---Habitat---United States and Canada.
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Description---A handsome perennial plant, growing in low rich, moist, soil in
swamps and near running streams, smooth and glaucous, and bears in May and June
a panicle of small yellowish green flowers and one or two seeds about the size
of a large pea, which ripen in August. These are sometimes roasted and boiled in
water, and given as a decoction resembling coffee.
The berries are dry and mawkish; the root is a hard thick, irregular, knotty,
contorted caudex, one to several inches long, with long slender radicles up to 8
inches long, externally yellowy brown, internally whitish to yellow, with a
central pith running longitudinally; taste, sweetish-bitter, then acrid and
pungent, with a slightly (pungent) fragrant odour; yields its properties to
alcohol, water or glycerine.
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