What is white snakeroot, and is it poisonous? Find out all you need to know about this plant in our guide.

White snakeroot is toxic. This plant is can grow anywhere from 1-4 feet high, has fibrous roots and produces white, tuft like flowers, the leaves are opposite, broadly ovate, with long petioles ...

White Snakeroot - <em>Ageratina altissima</em>, a member of the Aster family - is a native plant once thought to cure snakebites, but in fact, it's toxic.

But, like other herbs known to be toxic, these plants had medicinally uses, too. American Indians treated various maladies with white snakeroot.

White ones, in late summer. These are the flowers of white snakeroot, a plant that reaches 3 to 4 feet tall, up to the lowest heart-shaped leaves of the redbud.