#cimicifuga

Another picture from the woods, with black cohosh flowers high on their almost invisible stems like ghosts, or like their common name fairy candles

Jill Raggett

Actaea racemosa / Black Cohosh at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

61624.01 Actaea racemosa by horticultural art https://flic.kr/p/2mJ3n47

I'm already missing field work! And have been for a while, since the last few weeks of my field season were spent in the office. As gratifying as more responsibility is, it's a lot less fun than being a lowly field tech! ... Here I am amongst a newly discovered population of Actaea arizonica (formerly Cimicifuga arizonica), Arizona bugbane. These rhizomatous perennials are on our Forest rare and sensitive plants list and are closely monitored every year. They're very beautiful and have a slightly citrusy smell that I like. I wonder if that smell has anything to do with being the bane of bugs. ... #Ranunculaceae #Actaea #Cimicifuga #bugbane #arizonabugbane #fieldwork #fieldseason #scitech #botany #science #rareplants #sensitiveplant #botanize #nativeplants #arizona (at Coconino National Forest) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo2Z-I7FvuN/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=udszlifbimyu

Black cohosh was all budded up down at the woods this morning.

Look at this alien life! Black cohosh emerging in the woods.