button snakeroot

Noun

• any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads

• coarse prickly perennial eryngo with aromatic roots; southeastern United States; often confused with rattlesnake master

• coarse prickly perennial eryngo of United States thought to cure rattlesnake bite

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  blazing star , gayfeather , gay-feather , snakeroot , Eryngium aquaticum , rattlesnake master , rattlesnake's master , Eryngium yuccifolium