#blue cohosh

[antimony-ore]

Native plant haul: Foxglove Beardtongue, Cardinal Flower, Tall Gayfeather, Golden Alexander, Blue Cohosh, Canada Anemone, Smooth Aster, Riddell's Goldenrod, Prairie Dock, Golden Ragwort, Marsh Gayfeather, Showy Goldenrod, Early Meadow Rue, Harebell, Lady Leek, Marsh Gayfeather again (whoops), Southern Blue Flag Iris, and False Sunflower

[vandaliatraveler]

“Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.”

- Ellis Peters

Photos from a hike this evening in Elizabeth’s Woods at Toms Run Preserve. From top: Azure bluet (Houstonia caerulea); a diminutive spring peeper (Pseudacris crucifer) hiding in the leaf litter; rue anemone (Thalictrum thalictroides); blackhaw viburnum (Viburnum prunifolium); lavender variation of dwarf larkspur (Delphinium tricorne); golden ragwort (Packera aurea); Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum); blue cohosh (Caulophyllum thalictroides); and a very shy Eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina).

[poisonousporn]

Blue Cohosh

[kihaku-gato]

The garden's Early Blue Cohosh (Caulophyllum giganteum) is popping purple~

[errantnight]

I got asked to do this like.... three years ago... I finally finished it. After I did the line art I got a case of crushing depression and then got anxious every time I looked at it so... finally done... mostly

I still need to actually scan them, these are just terrible phone pictures in wretched light

[speakingofnature]

The flowers of Blue Cohosh (Caulophyllum thalictroides) are now in bloom across the woodlands of Iowa. It is believed that Native Americans used these flowers as a medicinal agent to induce labor.

[vandaliatraveler]

Fall visits the virgin hemlock forest at Cathedral State Park.

[vandaliatraveler]

Blue cohosh (Caulophyllum thalictroides) is very similar in appearance to giant blue cohosh, but its flowers are yellow-green and smaller than those of its close relative. The plant’s three-lobed leaves are also more sharply serrated at the tips than those of giant blue cohosh. This beautiful, lush perennial of Appalachia’s damp, rich woods has figured prominently in the history of herbal medicine in North America, long being used by Native Americans and traditional medicine practitioners to treat everything from hiccups and constipation to female reproductive problems. However, the plant has toxic properties and is better admired for its aesthetic, rather than medicinal, qualities. The photos above were taken earlier today at the Friendship Hill National Historic Site, part of the National Park system.