Black Snakeroot at Bender Mountain, September, 2011
-photo by Tim Sisson, WWC President 2011
From wikipedia;
“Actaea racemosa (black cohosh, black bugbane, black snakeroot, fairy candle; syn. Cimicifuga racemosa) is a plant of the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae). It is native to eastern North America from the extreme south of Ontario to central Georgia, and west to Missouri and Arkansas”