Definition of American bugbane

1. Noun. Bugbane of the eastern United States having erect racemes of white flowers.

Exact synonyms: Cimicifuga Americana, Summer Cohosh
Generic synonyms: Bugbane

Lexicographical Neighbors of American Bugbane

American beaver
American beavers
American beech
American bison
American bisons
American bittern
American bitterns
American bittersweet
American black bear
American black vulture
American black vultures
American blight
American bog asphodel
American brooklime
American buffalo
American bugbane (current term)
American capital
American centaury
American chameleon
American cheese
American chestnut
American cocker spaniel
American cocker spaniels
American cockroach
American cockroaches
American columbo
American coot
American copper
American crab apple
American cranberry

Literary usage of American bugbane

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"American bugbane. Fig. 1866. C. americana Michx. FI. Ara. i : 316. 1803. Stem slender, 3°-5° high, leafy. Leaves ternate, the divisions pinnate with many of ..."

2. A Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States by Asa Gray (1880)
"... in the membranaceous ¡ads : style awl- shaped: stigma minute, 2. C. Americana, Michx. (American bugbane.) Racemes slender, panicled ; ovaries mostly 5, ..."

3. Maryland Weather Service: Reports by Maryland Weather Service (1910)
"American bugbane. Mountain Zone; in moist forests; rare. Garrett County, Kelso Gap (2038). Aquilegia canadensis L. Wild Columbine. Rare in the Coastal Zone; ..."

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