bugbane

1. North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes;
   Yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally (synset 112485154)
   is a type of: false hellebore, hellebore - perennial herbs of the lily family having thick toxic rhizomes
   same as: american hellebore, indian poke, veratrum viride, white hellebore
2. A plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects (synset 111748999)
   is a type of: ligneous plant, woody plant - a plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems
   subtypes:

   • american bugbane, cimicifuga americana, summer cohosh - bugbane of the eastern United States having erect racemes of white flowers
   • black cohosh, black snakeroot, cimicifuga racemosa, rattle-top - North American bugbane found from Maine and Ontario to Wisconsin and south to Georgia
   • cimicifuga foetida, fetid bugbane, foetid bugbane - bugbane of Siberia and eastern Asia having ill-smelling green-white flowers
   belongs to: cimicifuga, genus cimicifuga - small genus of perennial herbs of north temperate regions: bugbane

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