This section is from the book "Harper's Guide To Wild Flowers", by Caroline A. Creevey. Also available from Amazon: Harper's Guide To Wild Flowers.
A. alba is even more conspicuous, with white berries on curiously thickened red stalks. At the tip of the berry is a black spot. Its compound, sharply-toothed leaves are broad and handsome. The berries of Actaea are poisonous.
Both species have a wide range in our Eastern woods, from New England southward.
The flowers of this species appear a little later than those of the red baneberry.
 
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