Actaea Species, Doll's Eyes, Necklace Weed, Toadroot, Snakeroot

One of my garden customers has a few of this species in part shade in moist, slightly acid soil. It is a handsome perennial and forest fo...Read Morerb with its compound leaves, white fuzzy flower heads, and white fruit.. It can grow in neutral pH soils up to around pH 7.0. It is native to the eastern US and Canada.

Wonderful herbaceous perennial species native to eastern North America. Truly a wonderful woodland plant that has toothy oval shaped leav...Read Morees.

The seeds of this plant are quite toxic and oddly enough, they were commonly sewn in as eyes to rag dolls many years ago.

This plant has small white flowers that usually appear sometime in May. It generally has red fruit that lasts about a month maybe a little bit longer which adds some nice interest in the woodland landscape.

It likes moist soil but my experience has been that it can tolerate somewhat dryer conditions.

All parts of the White Baneberry are poisonous. The berries are of particular concern since they are most likely to be eaten. Toxic effec...Read Morets include cramps, headaches, vomiting and dizziness, although no deaths have been reported in North America. The name Baneberry refers to the plant's toxicity, being derived from the Anglo-Saxon word for "murderous" - bana.