Tall White Rattlesnake-root     or Tall White Lettuce

Tall White Rattlesnake-root         or Tall White Lettuce

Preanthes altissima

Aster or Daisy Family - Asteraceae

Flowers (½ to ¾ inches long) are greenish-white with a protruding style and have pale green to pinkish bracts on the tubular part of the flower head. Leaves alternate and usually toothed, but variable in shape; stem leaves egg-shaped to triangular and more basal leaves either triangular, lobed or even divided. (Photographed – late August)

This upright plant (2 to 6 feet tall) with rather sparse leaves and groups of short-stalked nodding flowers was found at the edge of woods adjacent to a marsh.

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