squawroot

Any of several North American plants, especially.

A parasitic plant (Conopholis americana) having a scaly brownish stem and a conelike inflorescence of tubular yellowish flowers.

A trillium (Trillium erectum) having strong-smelling purple to yellow flowers.

A leafless fleshy plant, Conopholis Americana, of the Orobanchaceæ, found in the eastern United States.

Rarely, the blue cohosh, Caulophyllum thalictroides.

A scaly parasitic plant (Conopholis Americana) found in oak woods in the United States; — called also cancer root.

Either of two, unrelated plants from eastern North America:

tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally

tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally