Snakeroot, also called white snakeroot, comprises over 330 plants in its genus. It was previously thought that the plant could treat venomous snake bites, but that proved to be false.

One plant that is commonly mistaken for white snakeroot is the late boneset. While these two may look similar from a distance, though, each is easily identifiable up close, especially if you know ...

Its flowers are pretty and look like white ageratum, but be careful if you pick them. ... Snakeroot flowers are pretty but the plant is toxic. Updated: Sep. 15, 2014, 10:30 a.m.

White snakeroot (Ageratina altissima) is a potentially toxic plant, particularly for dairy animals as the toxins can be passed through the milk. It caused many human deaths during the age of ...

Beneath my redbud, awash in spring with pink flowers, arises a new set of blooms. White ones, in late summer. These are the flowers of white snakeroot, a plant that reaches 3 to 4 feet tall, up to … ...

It was not until the 1920s that it was recognized that cattle that grazed on white snakeroot caused humans to die if they drank the cow’s milk.

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - What's that plant that's about thigh-high with bright white flowers you see along the side of the road this time of year? It's White Snakeroot - Ageratina altissima, a member ...

The white snakeroot wildflower is now blooming in woods and bottomlands in North Georgia. The plant, however, contains toxins that, if ingested, can cause severe sickness and death in people, pets ...

White snakeroot flowers in September and October. The blossoms are bright white and individually small, but they are arranged in rounded clusters a few inches across. The plants are two to three ...

Gardening columnist Charlie Giedeman identified this plant as white snakeroot, a poisonous weed that grows in the Midwest. News-Democrat Q: Enclosed is a weed that has been growing in my vegetable ...

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 ...