BANEBERRY

any plant of the small genus Actaea, north temperate perennials of the family Ranunculaceae (buttercup family) sometimes cultivated for the handsome (though poisonous) berrylike fruits. Native species, formerly used medicinally by both Native Americans and whites and also called cohosh, are the red baneberry (with a stalk of red berries) and the white baneberry (with a stalk of white berries). The plant is also one of several plants called herb Christopher, particularly the dark-fruited European species. The baneberry is similar to the related bugbane, one species of which is also called cohosh. Baneberry is classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Ranunculales, family Ranunculaceae.

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books on: Baneberry  - 29 results

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The World of Plant Life
Book by Clarence J. Hylander; Macmillan, 1939
Subjects: Botany--United States
...woodland plant. The White Baneberry is a plant of similar appearance...white berries. The Western Baneberry has white flowers in an elongated...spike like that of the White Baneberry, but the berries may be either...flower parts. Like all the Baneberries, it is an inhabitant of woods...
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Wildflowers of North America in Full Color
Book by Robert S. Lemmon, Charles C. Johnson; Hanover House, 1961
Subjects: Wild Flowers--North America
The delicacy of WHITE BANEBERRY blossoms 396 is in sharp contrast with the roughness of the plants...DOLLS EYES 397 , are poisonous and account for the curious name "Baneberry." distant relative of the Vanilla Leaf. It is definitely a resident...
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Wild Flowers of New York - Vol. 2
Book by Homer D. House; The University of the State of New York, 1918
Subjects: Wild Flowers--New York (State), Wild Flowers--North America
...page 101 Golrthread Coptis trifolia . Plate 60a American Globeflower Trollius laxus . Plate 61 Red Baneberry Actaea rubra . Plate 62 White Baneberry Actaea alba . Plate 63b Black Snakeroot; Black Cohosh Cimicifuga racemosa . Plate 64 Wild Columbine...
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The Horse in Blackfoot Indian Culture: With Comparative Material from Other Western Tribes
Book by John C. Ewers; U.S. Government Printing Office, 1955
Subjects: Horses, Siksika Indians
...tired horses to revive them. He believed a root similar to baneberry, and known to the Blackfoot as "strong root," which laymen...and as we have seen above, correctly that the root of the baneberry, frequently found in medicine pipe bundles, was one of the...
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Wild Flower Guide, Northeastern and Midland United States
Book by Edgar T. Wherry, Tabea Hofmann; Doubleday, 1948
Subjects: Wild Flowers--United States
...medicinal principles, and the plant is grown commercially. White Baneberry Actaea alba Pl. 40 FEATURES: Flowers small, whitish, in...Can be grown in a woodland garden. NOTES: The related RED BANEBERRY A. rubra has red berries on slender stalks; there are also...
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Compensating for Health: the Acts and Outcomes of Atomic Testing
Journal article by Marie I. Boutte; Human Organization, Vol. 61, 2002
Subjects: Compensation, Federal legislation, Health, Nevada, Nuclear tests, Radiation, Settlements & damages
...testing began. In December 1970, an underground shot named Baneberry vented unexpectedly and contaminated hundreds of test site...from the government. According to Titus (1986:106), the Baneberry incident "marked the beginning of a new era in which the...


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magazine articles on: Baneberry  - 3 results

 
 
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Habitats
Magazine article; Natural History, Vol. 108, September 1999
Subjects: Flowers & plants, Forests, Habitats, Kluane National Park Reserve
...Another common bush, shrubby cinquefoil, has five-part leaves and bright yellow flowers. Common wildflowers are red baneberry, grass-ofParnassus, dwarf cornel, twinleaf, pinkflowering wintergreen, arctic lupine, monkshood, and tall larkspur...
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Fifty Years of Nuclear Testing
Magazine article; Arms Control Today, Vol. 25, July 1995
Subjects: Nuclear tests, Nuclear weapons
...Pacific. 1970 March 5 The NPT enters into force. December 18 A 10-kiloton test at the Nevada test site, code-named Baneberry, accidentally vents a large radioactive cloud, which is tracked to the Canadian border. This is the last major venting...
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Schooner Cove, Labrador
Magazine article by Robert H. Mohlenbrock; Natural History, Vol. 104, May 1995
Subjects: Biology, Geographic profiles, Labrador Canada, Tourism
...the headland grow plants that live much of the year in shallow, cold, standing water. Among these are goldthread, red baneberry, burnet, and more sedges. Several species of willows usually line the streams and rivulets. At one point, the trail meanders...


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newspaper articles on: Baneberry  - 7 results

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Three-Day Planner
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), October 28, 2011
Subjects: Historic buildings
...browns of the oaks. Find the bright red clusters of jack-in-the-pulpit seeds, and the pink, white and black of the Baneberry and much more. Bliss Woods is on Bliss Road, just north of Route 47, in Sugar Grove. Participants should dress for the...
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No-Hitter Propels Challengers to Win
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), June 30, 2011
Subjects: No-hitter (Baseball)
...with Jesse Droemer of Sealy, Texas. Oregon State golfer Alex Moore was eliminated on the 19th hole by Scott Kammann, of Baneberry, Tenn., and Sean Maekawa of Oregon was defeated 1 up by J. J. Spaun of Los Angeles. On the womens side at Bandon Dunes...
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Spring Comes Early with Annual Flower and Garden Show
Newspaper article by Deborah Donovan; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), March 5, 2000
...been moved. The plants will phase from a wooded area to the prairie with examples like great Angelica, blue flag iris, baneberry, jack-in- the pulpit and green dragon. Musclewood trees that only grow 20 feet tall are perfect for suburban gardens...
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Finding the Right Plant to Grow under a Tree
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), April 16, 2000
...and water in dry weather, you can enjoy ferns and hostas. And you can count on shade-loving perennials such as astilbe, baneberry, columbine, corydalis, globeflower, masterwort, Siberian bugloss, timber phlox, toad lily and wood aster to provide...
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European Invader
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), November 7, 2011
...impressed by the difference. "We removed a lot of buckthorn at Bliss Woods," Tim said. "This (made) way for Hepatica, Baneberry, Snakeroot, etc." Tim and fellow volunteers also cut buckthorn at Glenwood Park and Les Arends Forest Preserve, opening...
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encyclopedia articles on: Baneberry  - 5 results

 
 
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Baneberry
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BANEBERRY any plant of the small genus Actaea, north temperate...Americans and whites and also called cohosh, are the red baneberry (with a stalk of red berries) and the white baneberry (with a stalk of white berries). The plant is also...
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Bugbane
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...effective than a placebo.) Other plants are also called bugbane and snakeroot; most plants called cohosh belong to the related baneberry genus. Bugbane is classified in the division Magnoliophyta , class Magnoliopsida, order Ranunculales, family Ranunculaceae...
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Cohosh
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
COHOSH kohosh , name for several plants, among them baneberry and black cohosh, a species of bugbane , both of the buttercup family; and blue cohosh, a member of the barberry family. Both...
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Herb Christopher
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HERB CHRISTOPHER see baneberry . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Buttercup
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...includes numerous familiar wildflowers and many cultivated ornamentals. Well-known representatives are the aconite , anemone , baneberry , bugbane , clematis (one of the few vine genera), columbine , globeflower , hellebore , hepatica , larkspur , love-in...


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