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Eryngium yuccifolium
A native prairie plant about 4 or 5 feet tall with trademark round spiky flowers.
Midwest and Southeast US
Re the name... It's not that it was hard for a rattlesnake to swallow—though it sure looks like it would be—but that the root was used by Indians as an antidote for the snake's venom
Spotted on Sep 1, 2011
Submitted on Sep 3, 2011
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