blue cohosh

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blue cohosh

A perennial herb (Caulophyllum thalictroides) of eastern North America, having a ternately compound leaf, small yellow-green or purplish flowers, and blue berrylike seeds.

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blue cohosh - tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally

blueberry root, Caulophyllum thalictrioides, Caulophyllum thalictroides, papoose root, papooseroot, squaw root, squawroot

Caulophyllum, genus Caulophyllum - blue cohosh

bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems

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