Eryngium yuccifolium

Eryngium yuccifolium

Taxobox
name = "Eryngium yuccifolium"


image_width = 240px
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Apiales
familia = Apiaceae
genus = "Eryngium"
species = "E. yuccifolium"
binomial = "Eryngium yuccifolium"
binomial_authority = Michx.

"Eryngium yuccifolium" (Button snake-root, Rattlesnake Master) is a common herbaceous perennial plant, native to the tallgrass prairies of central and eastern North America, from Minnesota east to Ohio and south to Texas and Florida. In the Chicago Region this species has a coefficient of conservatism of 9. It grows to 1.8 m tall, with linear leaves 15-100 cm long but only 1-3 cm broad, with bristly or spiny margins and a sharp tip. The flowers are produced in dense apical umbels 1-3 cm diameter, each flower greenish-white or bluish-white, 3-4 mm diameter. When this plant flowers, pollen matures before stigmas become receptive to maximize outcrossing. Rattlesnake master has unusually high seed set (close to 90%).

It gets its name because some Native Americans used its root as an antidote for rattlesnake venom. The scientific name was given because its leaves resemble those of yuccas.

References

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* Melano Flores, Brenda. 2001. Reproductive Biology of "Eryngium yuccifolium" (Apiaceae), a prairie species. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 128:1-6

* Swink, Floyd and Gerould Wilhelm. Plants of the Chicago Region. Indiana Academy of Science. 1994.

External links

* [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?102098 Germplasm Resources Information Network: "Eryngium yuccifolium"]


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