Details for: Ames 30455, Actaea racemosa L., ccc-004


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Actaea racemosa L.
Top Name:
ccc-004
Origin:
Collected – Virginia, United States
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
08 Dec 2009
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Life Habit:
Forb
Availability
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Actaea racemosa L.
Top Name:
ccc-004
Origin:
Collected – Virginia, United States
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
08 Dec 2009
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Life Habit:
Forb
Source History
Donated
08 December 2009.
Maryland, United States

Donor(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
ccc-004
Type: Collector identifier

Ames 30455
Type: Site identifier
Group: AMES
NC-7 Research Numbers

NA 77733
Type: Site identifier
Group: NA
U.S. National Arboretum
USDA, ARS

Narrative
Plants 2.5-3 feet in height; 3 ternately divided leaves; primary leaflet pinnately compound, odd, opposite; terminal pinnule 3x4 inch palmate with deep sinus; opposite pinnules 2x3 inch palmate with 4 sinus/4 lobes; rounded base; acuminate apex; margin doubly serrate/twice incised; venation palmate/textured beneath; dark green above; light green below; rich luster; glabrous hair; green petiole; tall flowering stem from thick root stock, terminal racemes, pedicels with small bracts, lobed petals, many stamens, carpel sessile; 8 black/brown crescent-shaped seeds within each tiny dried black orb, hanging in two rows on upper stalk.
Actaea racemosa L.
Genus:
Actaea
Section:
Actaea
Family:
Ranunculaceae
Subfamily:
Ranunculoideae
Tribe:
Actaeeae
Nomen number:

411899
Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 1:504. 1753
Verified:
09/17/1998 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Cimicifuga racemosa (L.) Nutt.

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishblack cohosh as Cimicifuga racemosa1FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America. Note: = Cimicifuga racemosa
Englishblack snakeroot as Cimicifuga racemosa1Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening Note: = Cimicifuga racemosa
Swedishläkesilverax  2Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
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