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This is a young plant, they reach height up to 3 feet tall. White Snakeroot provides late season food to bees and butterflies, as well as some moths. The toxin contained within White Snakeroot is called tremetol, and is present in the foliage and roots. Tremetol can be, but Should Not Be consumed by grazing herbivores, and is fatal to them. Milk from animals that grazed on Snake-root is poisonous to humans. It is what supposedly killed Abraham Lincoln’s mother in 1818. #MyWalks #Canada