Taxon: Actaea racemosa L.

Common names:

• black cohosh   (Source: F NAmer [as Cimicifuga racemosa]) – English
  
• black snakeroot   (Source: Dict Gard [as Cimicifuga racemosa]) – English
  
• läkesilverax   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard, as Cimicifuga racemosa; Eur Gard F, as Cimicifuga racemosa)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce, as Cimicifuga racemosa; Ency CNatIn, as C. racemosa; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

More:

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Ontario [s.]
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Massachusetts [w.], New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois [n. & s.], Missouri [s.]
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama [n.e.], Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Compton, J. A. et al. 1998. Reclassification of Actaea to include Cimicifuga and Souliea (Ranunculaceae): phylogeny inferred from morphology, nrDNA ITS, and cpDNA trnL-F sequence variation. Taxon 47:613.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. [= Cimicifuga racemosa].
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. [= Cimicifuga racemosa].
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Actaea racemosa.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Actaea racemosa.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Actaea racemosa.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Cimicifuga racemosa (L.) Nutt.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Actaea racemosa L.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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