Seneca Snakeroot - the Fruit
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“Polygala senega of eastern North America. It sends up several stems from hard knotty root-stocks, bearing single close racemes of white flowers. It is the source of the officinal senegaroot, and from being much gathered is said to have become scarce in the east.” —Whitney, 1889
This illustration is of the fruit of the plant.
Keywords
flowers, flower, fruit, stem, stems, Polygala Senega, milkwort, rattlesnake root, hard stocks, knotty roots, mountain flax, seneca snakeroot, senegaroot, snakerootSource
William Dwight Whitney, PhD, LLD The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York, NY: The Century Co., 1895) 5725
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