Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read about Actaea and Cimicifuga from Alan Weakley and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.
Learn more about Common Black Cohosh from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Ranunculales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Actaea racemosa
FAMILY
Ranunculaceae
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Actaea racemosa +
FAMILY
Ranunculaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 076-09-001:
Cimicifuga racemosa
FAMILY
Ranunculaceae
COMMON NAME:
Common Black Cohosh, Early Black Cohosh, Black Snakeroot
To see a detailed map, click here
Look for it in rich cove forests, other mesic & moderately to very fertile forests, per Weakley's Flora
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in
GA
NC
SC
Common (rare in Coastal Plain of NC)
...Moist
LEAVES:
Complexly compound, with 2+ levels of pinnate and/or ternate compoundness
Alternate & basal
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
4 sepals (usually)
Petals absent
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Follicle
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South p141
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p116
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p133
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p424
- Southern Appalachian Wildflowers p056
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States P013
- Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition p063
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p074
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p034
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p056
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont p326
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p050
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