Button snakeroot: 1 definition

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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

1) Button snakeroot in English is the name of a plant defined with Eryngium aquaticum in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Eryngium aquaticum Hook. & Arn. (among others).

2) Button snakeroot is also identified with Eryngium yuccifolium It has the synonym Eryngium aquaticum var. normale H. Wolff (etc.).

3) Button snakeroot is also identified with Liatris spicata It has the synonym Lacinaria spicata Kuntze (etc.).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum (1791)
· American Midland Naturalist (1941)
· Species Plantarum (1753)
· Boston Journal of Natural History (1850)
· Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique (1798)
· Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden

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