Description
Description: Black Cohosh is a woodland perennial with deeply toothed compound leaves and racemes of pungent cream flowers in the summer.
The large, creeping, knotting rootstock, scarred with the remains of old growth, produces a stem up to 9 feet high. The leaves are ternate; the leaflets are ovate or oblong and are irregularly toothed and cut.
Small, white, fetid flowers grow in long racemes from May to August.
Botanical Name: Cimicifuga racemosa
Common Names: Black snakeroot, bugbane, bugwort, rattleroot, rattletop, rattleweed, macrotys
Medicinal Part: Root, rhizome
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Safety Guidelines: Should not to be used during pregnancy or while nursing
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