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Seneca Snakeroot

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Scientific Name: Polygala senega
Common Name: Seneca snakeroot
Family: Polygalaceae
Locale: Ozarks
Specific Region: near Dutton, Arkansas
Description: This is the whole plant harvested in the Arkansas Ozark’s. There were enough scattered about to gather a few plants and smell and taste its sharp wintergreen odor. The plants are small but noticeable. They were in an occasionally cut field mixed with Echinacea purpurea and Hypericum prolificum along with others.
Date: July 12,2007
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