Tall Rattlesnakeroot

Synonyms:   Tall White Lettuce

Scientific Name:   Prenanthes altissima
Altenative names, synonyms, exist for this plant. See RPC Plant Details and check the refernce websites for additional information.


Alternate Scientific Name (Synonym):  Nabalus altissimus

Aster family (flower heads composed of multiple florets, often disk flowers or both disk and ray flowers).

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Tall Rattlesnakeroot


Genus species: Prenanthes altissima
     Synonym: Nabalus altissimus
Common Names: Tall Rattlesnakeroot,Tall White Lettuce
Family Name: Asteraceae  
Flowers of two basic types: 1) disk florets with tubular corollas, and 2) ray florets with ligulate corollas. Heads are composed of exclusively one type or the other (discoid or ligulate), or typically with disk florets in the center and ray florets around the perimeter; fruit an achene (or cypsela).
Seed Type Angiosperm
Origin:  
Native: native to North America.
Non-native: not native to North America.
Introduced Native: native to North
America, but not Rowe Woods.
* Definitions based on the USDA
terminology
Native
Category:Wildflower
Flower Color:White
Identified by:A. Swanson
Months in Bloom  
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