This section is from the book "Who's Who Among The Wild Flowers", by W. I. Beecroft. Also available from Amazon: A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants.
Tall Bugbane. Cimicifuga racemosa.
Crowfoot Family. June - July.
Found in rich woods, hillsides. Southern New England and Wisconsin south to Georgia.
White, ill-scented, fuzzy, borne on a long, slender spike terminating stem 3 - 8 feet high.
Compound, sharply toothed.
 
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