Culver's Root

SCIENTIFIC NAME: Veronicastrum virginicum

COMMON NAMES: Culver's Root

BLOOM TIME: June, July, Aug

PLANT PROFILE:

Plants grow 3 – 7 foot tall.

Named after Dr. Culver, a pioneer physician of the late 17th & early 18th century, who used the root for its purgative properties (as a laxative) and to induce vomiting.

Native American used to treat fevers, cough, and to induce vomiting.

Flowers are spiked & resemble a candelabra and can be up to 8” long.

Flowers have no smell.

INSECT/ANIMAL INTERACTIONS:

• The most common visitors to the flowers are honeybees, bumblebees, Mason bees, Green Metallic bees, Masked bees, and others.
• Other kinds of insect visitors include wasps, butterflies, moths and flies.