button snakeroot
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1. any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads (noun.plant)
| hyponym | : | dotted gayfeather, liatris punctata, |
| definition | : | herb with many stems bearing narrow slender wands of crowded rose-lavender flowers; central United States and Canada to Texas and northern Mexico (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | dense blazing star, liatris pycnostachya, |
| definition | : | perennial of southeastern and central United States having very dense spikes of purple flowers; often cultivated for cut flowers (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | genus liatris, liatris, |
| definition | : | genus of perennial North American herbs with aromatic usually cormous roots (noun.plant) |
2. coarse prickly perennial eryngo with aromatic roots; southeastern United States; often confused with rattlesnake master (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | herb, herbaceous plant, |
| definition | : | a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | eryngium, genus eryngium, |
| definition | : | large genus of decorative plants with thistlelike flower heads; cosmopolitan in distribution (noun.plant) |
3. coarse prickly perennial eryngo of United States thought to cure rattlesnake bite (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | perennial, |
| definition | : | (botany) a plant lasting for three seasons or more (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | eryngium, genus eryngium, |
| definition | : | large genus of decorative plants with thistlelike flower heads; cosmopolitan in distribution (noun.plant) |
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