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Rattlesnake Master
Eryngium yuccifolium
41.8781, -87.6298
Field Notes
Description:
A native prairie plant about 4 or 5 feet tall with trademark round spiky flowers.
Habitat:
Midwest and Southeast US
Notes:
Re the name... It's not that it was hard for a rattlesnake to swallow—though it sure looks like it would be—but that the root was used by Indians as an antidote for the snake's venom
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